RE: Install Boot Hangs

["Weber, Jeremy" <JWeber Eventra com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:18 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Install Boot Hangs


(I'm reversing your top-posting so we can follow this.)

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:59:03AM -0500, Weber, Jeremy wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:50 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Install Boot Hangs
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:18:30AM -0500, Weber, Jeremy wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am new to this list and trying to install Redhat 7.3 on a Compaq
> Presario
> > 1200 Laptop with no current OS installed.  After I choose an
installation
> > option (text/graphic/etc.) it hangs.  The last line printed to the
screen
> > is:
> > 
> > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1.
> > 
> > I have waited at least 10 minutes.  Is there anything else I could
try...
> > 
> > 
> > Jeremy Weber                    
> > jweber eventra com
> 
> Do you have anything plugged into the USB port, like a USB mouse?  If
> so, and you can do without it during the install, do so.  You'll be
> able to us it after the install.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bob McClure, Jr.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Nope, not one thing. So I am still stuck, I have taken all the install
> options to see if that would make a difference and nothing.....  Any other
> ideas?
> 
> Jeremy Weber                    
> jweber eventra com

Well, the real question is whether it's the USB hanging things, or was
it OK and the next step is where it's hanging.  Perhaps you could go
into the BIOS and disable the USB just to assure it's not the culprit.
While you're in there, it wouldn't hurt to turn off APM, too.

The only other show-stopper I know of is if you don't have any
unallocated (that is, unpartitioned) space available for Linux.

How far do we get, now?

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
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BIOS has no options to disable anything.  Simply boot order, of which its
going CD, HDD, Floppy and really thats about it. 
I have deleted all the partitions from the disk and still the same thing.
Before I did that I had a ext2 partition and a swap partition.
In what state should the hard disk be in before I start the installation.

Arggghhh....:(