[lug] RedHat Installer Fails but Caldera will easily load...WHY?

Jack Swope swopedba at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 10 13:09:20 MST 2001


I have made nearly 100 attempts to install Redhat 7.0,
7.1, and 7.2 but 
it continually fails after ctrl+alt+f1 reaches
"running anaconda", 
ctrl+alt+f3 reaches "searching for usb mouse", and
ctrl+alt+f4 reaches 
"raid5 set to p5_mmx".  I have performed installs at
work with PentiumPros, 
Pentium II, and Pentium III.  I have never had the
amount of 
difficulties I am having with my own machine.

Below is a description of the machine including what
Caldera sees 
everything as.  If anyone has any suggestions I would
appreciate it.




Gateway Select PC AMD Athlon 950MHz Processor
256MB of PC133 SDRAM
IBM Deskstar Model: DTLA-307045 46.1GB  on Primary IDE
as Master
Maxtor 10GB on Primary IDE as Slave
Toshiba DVD-CD-ROM on Secondary IDE as Master
ZIP 250 on Secondary IDE as Slave
SoundBlaster Live Value Sound Card
nVidia RIVA TNT2 Video Card
Intel Pro 100 Ethernet Card
Promise Technology- Ultra 100 PCI Card no drives
attached at present




[root at longspeak /root]# lspci -vt
-[00]-+-00.0  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751
[Irongate] System 
Controller
      +-01.0-[01]----05.0  nVidia Corporation Riva
TNT2 Model 64
      +-07.0  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756
[Viper] ISA
      +-07.1  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756
[Viper] IDE
      +-07.3  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756
[Viper] ACPI
      +-07.4  Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756
[Viper] USB
      +-0f.0  Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
      +-0f.1  Creative Labs SB Live!
      +-11.0  Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device
4d30
      \-12.0  Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro
100]



[root at longspeak /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 4
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 948.190497                          
                        
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
sep_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr 6 mce cx8 sep
mtrr pge 14 cmov 
fcmov 17 psn 22 mmx 24 30 3dnow
bogomips        : 947.00



[root at longspeak /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers: 
cached:
Mem:  65650688 64212992  1437696 28422144  3350528
18776064
Swap: 1645015040  5754880 1639260160
MemTotal:     64112 kB
MemFree:       1404 kB
MemShared:    27756 kB
Buffers:       3272 kB                                
 
Cached:       18336 kB
SwapTotal:  1606460 kB
SwapFree:   1600840 kB


[root at longspeak /root]# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/hda1 type vfat (ro)
longspeak:(pid612) on /auto type nfs 
(intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/am.d/localdev,dev=00000003)
/dev/hdb1 on /extra type ext2 (rw)


[root at longspeak /root]# cat /proc/ide/drivers
ide-cdrom version 4.54
ide-disk version 1.09


[root at longspeak /proc]# cat devices
Character devices:
  1 mem
  2 pty
  3 ttyp
  4 ttyS
  5 cua
  6 lp
  7 vcs
 10 misc
 14 sound
 29 fb
 36 netlink
128 ptm
136 pts

Block devices:
  1 ramdisk
  2 fd
  3 ide0
  9 md
 22 ide1                                   


[root at longspeak /proc]# cat dma
 4: cascade     


[root at longspeak /proc]# cat interrupts
           CPU0
  0:     190407          XT-PIC  timer
  1:        843          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          0          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:      10518          XT-PIC  eth0
 11:          0          XT-PIC  emu10k1
 12:     153312          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:      23188          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:      25837          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
ERR:          0               

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
0378-037a : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0778-077a : parport0
cb00-cb07 : ide0
cb08-cb0f : ide1
ff40-ff5f : emu10k1
fff0-fff7 : emu10k1 joystick
84819000-8481901f : Intel Speedo3 Ethernet        


[root at longspeak /proc]# cat locks
1: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 796 03:05:1536034 0
2147483647 827ed320 
00000000 83f9aea0 00000000 00000000
2: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 653 03:05:57445 0 2147483647
83f9aea0 
827ed320 83f9ae40 00000000 00000000
3: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 0 03:05:57444 0 2147483647
83f9ae40 83f9aea0 
00000000 00000000 00000000           

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat mdstat
Personalities :
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive                     

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   45034920 hda
   3     1    6144831 hda1
   3     2          1 hda2
   3     5    8313606 hda5
   3     6    1606468 hda6
   3    64    9772560 hdb
   3    65    9767488 hdb1
  22     0 1073741823 hdc         

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: AMD IronGate Host (rev 37).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000
[0xf8000008].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc5ff000
[0xfc5ff008].
      I/O at 0xff9c [0xff9d].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: AMD Unknown device (rev 1).
      Vendor id=1022. Device id=7007.
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64. 
Min Gnt=10.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: AMD Viper ISA (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
    IDE interface: AMD Viper IDE (rev 7).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xcb00 [0xcb01].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
    Bridge: AMD Viper ACPI (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  4:
    USB Controller: AMD Viper USB (rev 6).            
          
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ
10.  Master 
Capable.  Latency=16.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebcf000
[0xfebcf000].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor
Unknown device (rev 7).
      Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ
11.  Master 
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
      I/O at 0xff40 [0xff41].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  1:
    Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown
device (rev 7).
      Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable. 
Master Capable.  
Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xfff0 [0xfff1].
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    Unknown mass storage controller: Promise
Technology Unknown device 
(rev 2).
      Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d30.
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable. 
Latency=64.
      I/O at 0xffe0 [0xffe1].
      I/O at 0xffac [0xffad].
      I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
      I/O at 0xffa8 [0xffa9].
      I/O at 0xff00 [0xff01].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebe0000
[0xfebe0000].
 Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 8).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ
9.  Master 
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebce000
[0xfebce000].
      I/O at 0xfe80 [0xfe81].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfea00000
[0xfea00000].
  Bus  1, device   5, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device
(rev 21).
      Vendor id=10de. Device id=2d.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ
11.  Master 
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000
[0xfd000000].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000
[0xf2000008].         

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat stat
cpu  15804 0 2855 196738
cpu0 15804 0 2855 196738
disk 22415 1199 0 0
disk_rio 13495 1198 0 0
disk_wio 8920 1 0 0
disk_rblk 28919 3314 0 0
disk_wblk 19436 8 0 0
page 255515 23710
swap 2258 1852
intr 457744 215397 1163 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 10770 0 0 177728
1 23345 29337 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ctxt 1001168
btime 1007956332
processes 1252                       

[root at longspeak /proc]# cat version
Linux version 2.2.14 (root at bm.calderalabs.com) (gcc
version 
egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Thu
Feb 17 11:49:42 MST 2000     



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