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

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:57:12PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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
> > 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

See also

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies

Most notable besides what Mark has already mentioned is to install to
ext2 filesystems, not ext3.  You can change to ext3 after the install.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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