Re: Mystery Solved: Redhat 7.3 install stops

[Aciel <aciel speakeasy net>]

See also the message titled "Install Trouble."

My system doesn't usually get as far as the partitioning--it freezes
before it even finishes booting from the CD. Then it complains about the
CD filesystem, not the hard drive filesystem.

Mystery still not completely solved.

Aciel


On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 12:23, Rick Stevens wrote:
> patrick_androsik bankone com wrote:
> > First off thanks to everyone who provided me suggestions.
> > 
> > On the CD size discussion.  The CD's I used were of the 650MB size and
> > 700MB size.  Once I used the below fix both sets worked fine.
> > 
> > The answer that has fixed my problem was to not use the EXT3 filesystem.
> > For some reason still really unknown, the install did not like it when I
> > choose to use the EXT3 filesystem.  I went ahead and installed Redhat
> > several times on each system using the EXT2 filesystem and no problems what
> > so ever.  I then decided to temp fate and I turned around and repeated the
> > process again and choose to use the EXT3 filesystem and guess what.  The
> > install failed to complete everytime.  So I turned around again (getting
> > dizzy at this point) and repeated the process and used EXT2 and low and
> > behold the install completed. So something must be wacked out in the
> > install for 7.3.
> 
> No, it poops out on some systems under 7.2, also.  There is some form
> of race condition between the install kernel and the ext3 modules.  I've
> seen it on Tyan, Intel and ASUS motherboards, some older Compaq servers
> and several other systems.  The install kernel is a lowest-common-
> denominator beast so it's bootable on the maximum number of systems.
> They've made some compromises in it that apparently exacerbate this
> race condition and has been known to muck with MCE and DMA on some
> motherboards, too.
> 
> Once your system is installed and the REAL kernel is run, the ext3
> filesystem will work fine.  You can convert ext2 to ext3 filesystems
> by using the tune2fs -J option.
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