Kickstart hang at "Installing Bootloader"

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Thu Aug 12 15:11:21 UTC 2004


On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Peter Fales wrote:

>On the second machine (Dell Optiplex GX110), it mostly works, but it
>consistently stalls at the "Installing Bootloader" screen.

In the bash console (Alt+F2), you can run ps and friends to see whether
it's GRUB/LILO hanging, or anaconda, or ...

What storage (ATA/SATA/SCSI) comes with that Optiplex? If it's SATA,
there might be some BIOS options which affect the kernel's interaction
with the hardware.


Cheers,
Phil





More information about the Kickstart-list mailing list