Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 91421
Installer hangs on HP LPr after Install image loaded
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: I'm attempting to install RH9 on an HP LPr (PII/450) from known good media. Since I've used this disk set to install several other systems, I doubt that it's a media problem. Mediacheck is successful when run on the affected system, and the ISO checksums are correct. The installer consistantly locks up after the install image is loaded and before the first package (glibc) is installed. This happens regardless of the file system types - I've tried software RAID, ext2, ext3, and LVM in just about every conceivable configuration, with the same results each time. RH 7.3 and 6.2 install without a hitch on the same box. I haven't tried to install 8.0 yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot HP LPr from RH9 disk 1 2. Select any partitioning scheme desired (doesn't seem to matter) 3. Select minimal install (this doesn't seem to matter either) Actual Results: System locks up immediately after install image is loaded Expected Results: Installation should have completed successfully Additional info:
If you switch to VC4 right before it hangs do you see any interesting kernel errors? I've seen media work on several machines and due to differences in tolerances for different CD drives have the media not work in other machines. Its always best to test the media on the system in question.
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.