RedHat Linux installation stops with no error at a very early stage.

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:36, Di Ar wrote:
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> 
> 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
> 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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