SuSE 8.1 Install hangs during package installation
Greetings SuSErs, After scouring the archives of several lists and coming up with nothing, I am looking for some help. I have problems installing SuSE 8.1 on an older PC I want to set up as a home file server. The hard drive is a brand new Seagate 120GB IDE connected to a HighPoint Rocket100 IDE card. It has Win98 installed and running properly on the first primary partition (other h/w details below). After starting YaST, I insert the IDE controller card driver into the kernel from a floppy before selecting the setup options (partitioning, software, boot, ...). No problems getting YaST to run in text or 640x480 mode. Once I have the setup configured as detailed below, I accept the install warning message and start installing. The system moves along, installing the packages and reporting progress for a random amount of time and then hangs (I made several attempts and it is a different package each time). The keyboard and mouse are locked up, so I cannot change to a different terminal window to check for possible error messages. I tried 8.2 previously and became fed up with the continuous stream of file dependency warnings and failed RPM installs (with little to know detail in the error messages). I am using 8.1 as a fallback with the intention of attempting an upgrade to 8.2 once the system is up and running. I used the same 8.1 media on a brand new machine with no problems whatsoever. 9.X is out of the question as HighPoint does not support the 2.6 kernel on the Rocket100. Any help is greatly appreciated. Michael Other possibly useful details/clues- H/W: AMD K6-2 356 MB RAM MS-5169 mainboard HighPoint Rocket100 IDE card Seagate Barracuda 7200 120GB HD - master Fujitsu 6GB HD - slave (legacy data) ATAPI 32X CDROM - master on IDE0 MadDog 56X CDRW - slave on IDE0 kernel params: no-hlt ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=Ox170,0x376,15 hda=cdrom hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe (also tried apm=off, apci=off; the noprobes are necessary only until the OS is loaded) Setup: Partitioning - 10GB ReiserFS for /, 96GB ReiserFS for /home, the balance for swap (mount the Win98 partitions as /c and /d) Software Options - Base Graphics, KDE, Web Server, File Server, C/C++ devtools -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Young email: michael.young@thermoanalytics.com Research Engineer www: http://www.thermoanalytics.com ThermoAnalytics, Inc. voice: 906.482.9560 X206 P.O. Box 66 fax: 906.482.9755 Calumet, MI 49913 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Providers of engineering services and software for advanced thermal and infrared signature analysis
On 30.08.04,12:27, Michael Young wrote:
Greetings SuSErs,
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same 8.1 media on a brand new machine with no problems whatsoever. 9.X is out of the question as HighPoint does not support the 2.6 kernel on the Rocket100.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Michael
Suse 9.0 uses the 2.4.21 kernel as default. - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen <jbernts@broadpark.no>
Suse 9.0 uses the 2.4.21 kernel as default. Yes and for me it seems to work very well for the same thing you are
Jostein Berntsen wrote: trying to do. I am probably going back to 9.0 after my attempt to use 9.1 this weekend. While a Pentium 200 MHz with 128 MB RAM isn't much, it worked fine with 9.0 but 9.1 brought the system to a crawl. I am still searching this list to see if I can find any previous posts about speed and 9.1. Give 9.0 a try. Damon Register
Jostein Berntsen wrote:
On 30.08.04,12:27, Michael Young wrote:
same 8.1 media on a brand new machine with no problems whatsoever. 9.X is out of the question as HighPoint does not support the 2.6 kernel on the Rocket100.
Suse 9.0 uses the 2.4.21 kernel as default.
Checked the HighPoint drivers more carefully and found the version for the latest kernel is 2.4.20. I accidently tried to use the 2.4.20 kernel version on 8.1 (2.4.19) and received a mismatch error message. Beginning to feel like I am SOL on this. :( I really do not want to use RedHat since I am no longer in their target market. Besides RH9, the only other driver available for the IDE card is for Caldera - not going to touch that with 10 foot stick... Michael -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Young email: michael.young@thermoanalytics.com Research Engineer www: http://www.thermoanalytics.com ThermoAnalytics, Inc. voice: 906.482.9560 X206 P.O. Box 66 fax: 906.482.9755 Calumet, MI 49913 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Providers of engineering services and software for advanced thermal and infrared signature analysis
The Monday 2004-08-30 at 12:27 -0400, Michael Young wrote:
message and start installing. The system moves along, installing the packages and reporting progress for a random amount of time and then hangs (I made several attempts and it is a different package each time). The keyboard and mouse are locked up, so I cannot change to a different terminal window to check for possible error messages.
Version 8.1 had a kernel bug that caused it to crash randomly, when using reiser partitions. You had to activate option "barrier=none" on those partitions in the fstab file (impossible during install), or install certain patched kernel. I don't remember the versions, but if you can grepmail this list archive (not on the suse server, certainly) for "barrier=none" you will find the pertinent messages at the time. [...] I found a few threads for you, around jan 2003: X-Message-Number-for-archive: 131333 Subject: Re: [SLE] Install Hangs X-Message-Number-for-archive: 132396 Subject: Re: [SLE] Install hangs keyboard blinks? X-Message-Number-for-archive: 132573 Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.1 Install X-Message-Number-for-archive: 133030 Subject: Re: [SLE] 8.1 freezing up random times
I tried 8.2 previously and became fed up with the continuous stream of file dependency warnings and failed RPM installs (with little to know detail in the error messages).
That shouldn't be... if you are installing from the dvd/cds, a new install, there can not be dependency problems. Or... are you updating?
Setup: Partitioning - 10GB ReiserFS for /, 96GB ReiserFS for /home, the balance for
You could install on ext2/3. After you get the patches from YOU, you can change to reiser if you like. The bug affects only reiserfs, with unpatched kernel. Or install from FTP... I'm unsure if the ftp server contains the primitive version, or the latest. In any case, your problem was very much talked about on this list at the time. Search it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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