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Could
someone Please explain why I am getting all of the redhat helpdesk questions. I
don't even have it installed. This has been going on for at least two weeks and
my mail host is ready to crash my hard drive because of all the unwanted
mail.......
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From: Mike Hansen [mailto:mgh520 yahoo com] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 2:46 PM To: redhat-install-list redhat com Subject: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions I'm trying to install RedHat 6.1 from CD onto an
AMD Athlon system with an FIC SD11 motherboard and a 10.2 GB Western Digital
Caviar UDMA/66 drive. It seems I have a few things working against me
here. The hardware compatibility list suggests that Athlon motherboards
may be incompatible and a quick search of the mailing list archives suggests
that UDMA/66 may be the problem.
I am using the graphic installation, custom
install. Right after I define the partitions I want and click next, the
GUI goes away and I'm left at a console that says the system is being shut
down. There is no indication of any errors before that, except a missing
security policy file for X which other postings here have said is no big
deal. If I use the text installation, at
the same point I get kicked out of the install program but I see a signal 11
error.
I don't understand the UDMA/66 problem. Is my
motherboard forcing UDMA/66 and Linux cannot access the drive because of
it? I have all of the bios settings relating to my drive set to AUTO
DETECT, so it is in control. I suppose I could try to drop the drive down
to UDMA/33 and see what happens, but I'd rather not impact NT performance just
for the sake of having Linux on the same drive.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could try
next? I've noticed that the 6.1 installation can be a bit flakey but this
fails at the same exact place everytime. The other thing I should mention
is that I already have Windows NT 4.0 workstation installed (on an NTFS
partition) on the same drive and I'm attempting to install Linux to
unpartitioned free space. I am using the lastest boot image from the
RedHat errata that says it fixes a problem in recognizing NTFS partitions.
Thanks in advance!
Mike
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