Bug 85842 - Seemingly non-problematic install - Crashes on INIT: after reboot
Summary: Seemingly non-problematic install - Crashes on INIT: after reboot
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 8.0
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-09 04:04 UTC by kris
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-03-11 17:24:39 UTC
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Description kris 2003-03-09 04:04:53 UTC
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Description of problem:
My system specs:
(Gateway)Jabil AMD K7 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 750Mhz
512MB PC133 SDRAM
WD Caviar 20GB 7200RPM
Nvidia GeForce2 MX400
Realtek Chipset-based Ethernet Card
Grub as MBR bootloader on /dev/hda

All my hardware except the monitor is recognized, I configure that using a newer
version of the driver which you can choose during the installation. I configure
my network, and package settings ans everything seems to work fine. The install
completes, I make boot disk, and set up the X configuration to use 800x600 24bit
(Test works fine).

When I reboot and start the OS, it hangs hard at INIT:. No keyboard
functionality, nothing works, system has to be reset.

Please help! 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install
2.Reboot
    

Actual Results:  Crash on INIT: runlevel

Expected Results:  Should boot normally

Additional info:

Comment 1 kris 2003-03-09 05:14:54 UTC
Build is Psyche-i386

Comment 2 kris 2003-03-09 05:18:04 UTC
Also, I have succesfully run RH7.0 on this system with the updated XFree86
modules. Why does a newer version of the OS break things? Bad! :(

Comment 3 kris 2003-03-10 10:31:56 UTC
I think you can close this thread 

I've have solved the problem, and I can only come to two possible solutions. I
had DRAM ECC enabled in the bios, which is not supported by my DRAM Modules.
However, this BIOS configuration is incorrect and did stop the Pheobe2 build
from booting past INIT:. I disabled this option in BIOS and booted the Pheobe2
build working properly. I then proceeded to reformat and install the Phsyche 8.0
release. Once another (seemingly) non-problematic installtion completed, I
reboot. Now, with the BIOS options changed and everything was in working order,
I had the same problem described in this bugtrack post, Hangs on INIT:, needs
hard reboot. So, after 2 days of this, I finally tried re-installing pheobe2 and
it works fine now. So, it's either my Physche CD media (which tested: PASS), or
it's something wrong with Psyche and the anaconda installer. I presume something
is wrong with GRUB, but not sure. I don't develop Linux :P

I hope this can help someone else out.


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