RedHat Linux installation stops with no error at a very earlystage.

[Rick Stevens]

Di Ar wrote:
> Thank you Mark and Bob for responding.
> 
> I tried the options Mark mentioned and unfortunately it made no 
> difference. I wasn't sure what option I had to use to force it to use 
> ext2 file system or whether it is something that I have to opt for at a 
> later stage than where it is stopping now.
> 
> I have two DVD devices. It seems to have gone through the first one ok 
> and the last line to do with ide1 on irq 5 (where it stops) appears 
> after going through the second one. the ide0 and ide1 on irq 5 also 
> appeared during the verification of the first DVD. Could it be that 
> there is a conflict here? I checked the two and they do not show any irq 
> assigned to them when I looked at them ifrom Windows.

Darius,

First, try to bottom post (put your comments AFTER what you're
commenting on).  It makes reading the messages easier.  And try not to
use HTML posting, use plain text.

Can you give us a better idea as to exactly what your system looks like.
We need things such as:

	Motherboard make and type
	CPU type and number (Xeon, Athlon, dual Xeons, etc).
	RAM size (512MB, whatever)
	Disk layout (80GB IDE as primary master, DVD as primary slave)
	External devices (USB, Firewire, etc.)

This can help us sort out what's going on.

If it is a SMP box (multi processor), you might also try adding the
"noapic" option to the boot command line.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Knecht
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:57:12 -0800
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: RedHat Linux installation stops with no error at a very 
> earlystage.
> 
>  > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:36, Di Ar wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Hello Everyone!
>  > >
>  > > I am not getting far with installing RedHat Linux on my PC. I have
>  > > already got Windows XP installed with two partitions on my hard disk.
>  > > I re-boot from CD-ROM. It prompts me with various options for
>  > > installing RedHat linux (version 9) and I choose to install using the
>  > > graphical interface.
>  >
>  > Probably won't matter for this problem, but next time try text based
>  > installation.
>  >
>  > > It goes through a page and half of identifying the devices on my
> & gt; > machine. Soon after it freezes on the second page with no error
>  > > message.
>  > >
>  > > The last entry see to do with Ide1 on IRQ = 5
>  >
>  > IRQ=5? (Or possibly IRQ=15?) Normally IDE controllers are on IRQ 14 and
>  > 15.
>  >
>  > > which happens to be the ‘Main Bus Controller’ and looking at it from
>  > > Windows has no driver installed against it. This is where it stops. I
>  > > don’t think it has much to do with the partition into which I want to
>  > > install Linux because it hasn’t even got to that point yet.
>  > >
>  > > I appreciate any help I can get.
>  >
>  > Try booting the installation kernel with nodma nousb options and see if
>  > you get further.
>  >
>  > Good luck,
>  > Mark
>  >
>  > >
>  > > Regards
>  > >
>  > > Darius
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
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