[lug] RedHat Installer Fails but Caldera will easily load...WHY?
D. Stimits
stimits at idcomm.com
Mon Dec 10 13:26:01 MST 2001
Jack Swope wrote:
>
> 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
You cannot specify pentium optimizations with an Athlon. I have never
compiled for an Athlon, so I can't say what those are, but I *can* tell
you I saw a bunch of people failing with Athlon until they used a more
basic kernel during the install, and compiled their own if they wanted
something better. I *think* the problem is that the MMX stuff and
advanced features of PII and up disagree with the instruction set on the
Athlon and those features cause death of boot. Take a very close look at
your choices for kernels.
D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 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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