-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 August 2002 06:13 pm, Patrick Nelson wrote: > OK, I've just got to say something and I hate the fact that I am able > to say it. Something has changed with the install process of RH73 and > it is cutting out a large percentage systems. I'm not sure of where to > begin, but lets just say that I'm trying to upgrade my RH72, RH71, and > RH62 systems to RH73.
I've seen the same problem working on the installers for the RULE project. Red Hat however does say that the minimum processor is a i586, I believe. Many older, slower systems crash with a sig 11 while running /sbin/loader. I have a PII-200 system here that does the same thing. > The next system was an HP OmniBook 5700ct laptop. The system was > running RH72. The system would not boot into the install because it > was halting during partition check because of a dma timeout (or > actually no timeout). Help from this list and RH support could not give > me a solution to this. After weeks of trying different options and > looking trough source. Finally found a way to disable dma correctly to > allow the install process to continue. Outcome: System upgraded. Just out of curiosity, you booted with boot: linux nodma in the example above? > running install... > running /sbin/loader > Install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 > Which then goes to a line that says "you man safely reboot your > system". Great signal 11... bad hardware frigging wonderful! Booting > off a RH72 floppy with the RH 73 CD goes into the install (of course I > didn't continue). Hmm... Outcome: No upgrade preformed. Why didn't you continue? You can install 7.3 after booting off a RH 7.2 boot disk. OK, so it's not obvious, but this install method works fine. I doubt Red Hat could/would support it, though. ;) I will say that I haven't tried this with an upgrade, only a clean install, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work as an upgrade. The comps file, the install classes, etc. will all load of the CD. Using the 7.2 boot disk just allows the system to load. After building the RULE 'miniconda' installer for the 7.3 release, I found we had the same problem with crashing on older hardware. I've built some of our 7.3 installers with an older kernel and it seems to have resolved the issue. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj1XAmUACgkQn/07WoAb/SsbsgCfe+MJAn2JIVqfQzzP69ZL7apI /LEAnjYr6DgMiby5xrRzq+Vaww4J47ee =piEL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
