Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8933
install hangs during packages
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:41:01 EST
I am attempting to install 6.1 on a new PC. Hardware: PIII-500, 128Mb RAM, Seagate Barracuda 18.2G LVD SCSI Advansys ASB3940U2W adapter card. Panasonic IDE/ATAPI 32X CD. Doing a CD install, I load the advansys driver, choose custom install. And everything goes OK until the packages start installing. Then at some random point in the install, it just freezes. It can be at the beginning,near the end or in the middle. At one point I actually got a complete installation, it booted right and everything, but I was unhappy with the setup, so thinking I had conquered the problem decided to reinstall. Bad move,I havent got it working since. When I do a ctrl-alt-f4 this is typical of the errors. <2>EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory #177057: inode out of bounds - offset=0,inode=439201, rec_len= 12, name_len=1 . ....more similar to the above . ....then <6>attempt to access beyond end of device I've searched the bug DB and havent quite found a problem like this one. Please help, I'm getting despereate.
We have heard reports like this and the only thing that we can come up with is that the partitions you are making are breaking a barrier. How are you partitioning your drive? Submit those details to me and I will try to replicate your problem in our test lab.
I have discovered a solution/workaround to this problem. In the Advansys SCSI card bios, I lowered the maximum transfer rate from 80 Mb/sec to 10 Mb/sec. Now I dont get any disk errors, and everything installs perfectly. I am no hardware guru but I thought U2LVD supported this speed. Both drive and adapter are meant to be LVD. Anyway I couldnt care less, the machine is purring along fine now. I will try some intermitent speeds (20,40) later.