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Re: Install fails during installation of rpmdb-redhat-4-0.20060803

Rick Stevens wrote:


On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 07:34 -0700, Bret Stern wrote:

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From: redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of John Powell 
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:38 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Install fails during installation of rpmdb-redhat-4-0.20060803
So I have been struggling with this for a while and have decided to give up and ask for help.
I am attempting to install RHEL 4 AS Update 4 on a system with the following spec/conf. 

Gigabyte 8iexp system board (Intel 845e) Pentium 4 2.8Ghz CPU
2 Gig Mem
2 ATA WD 80 Gig drives
GForce 4 compatible video
The Installation consistently fails on the second cd while installing the aforementioned rpm. The Install error is something like... "Installation of rpm blah failed... this could happen due to corrupt download, media, and/or hardware"... since I have verified that the cd's md5 checks out as well as run media check to verify the media is correct I am left with the apparent fact that my hardware isn't going to cut it. Can someone verify that this is indeed the case else provide some suggestion as to what I should try to get the installation past the installation of this rpm? 

You say "ATA" drives.  Are they PATA (IDE) or SATA?  Are they set up as
a RAID?  If so, hardware or software.

You may also want to try turning off DMA on the CD during the install.
If your CD shows up as device /dev/hdc, try adding "hdc=nodma" to the
end of the "boot:" prompt:

	boot: linux hdc=nodma

You may want to try turning off DMA on IDE completely:

	boot: linux ide=nodma

Also, try disabling APIC operations by adding " noapic" to the boot
command:

	boot: linux noapic

You may need a combination:

	boot: linux ide=nodma noapic


Thanks in advance.


Good luck!

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Rick,

Thanks for the responce. Here are the answers to your questions...
These drives are PATA and are setup in a non RAID configuration... just standard IDE (master/slave on the IDE bus 1). 

I have tried several attempts using the boot options you specifed...
ide=nodma
noapic
ide=nodma + noapic
All install paths lead to the same error at the same point during the install.
I have also tried swapping out hardware... attempted a single IDE 80gig Barracuda drive, swapped out two different cdrom readers
The end result being I still get the same error. Pretty odd eh? I have never ever had such a hard time installing a linux distro before. Redhat 9 went on smooth as can be with the originally specified config. Ubuntu, Mandrake also had a smooth installation. Fedora Core 5 actually hangs during the install however when switching bettween CD's or during some seemingly random RPM (was never the same one during the 5 attempts that I made and usually occurred on the first install disc). 

So all of this and I am still left in the dark. Any further ideas?

Thanks,
John
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