Error: Anaconda hangs during/after /sbin/loader

[Paul Morgan]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 22:10, m2bruce at ryerson.ca wrote:
> I'm having a problem with an installation on a Compaq 1211CA laptop.  The laptop has 192 MB of memory, and is using a 1GHz Athalon processor.  Ide Hard drive.
> running /sbin/loader
> at this point, the screen will flash and switch resolution then all disks spin down after 10-15 seconds.  Keyboard interrupts do not work.  The 'nofb' option stops the screen from changing resolutions, but the halt occurs at the same place.  i've tried disabling apm, acpi, and using ide=nodma. The install has been run with defaults, and with mem=192M.

You might try "noapic" in addition to the options you've already tried.