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RH4.0 Install Reboots For Unknown Reason
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clint Wunderlich)
Wed Nov 6 13:36:08 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 13:32:30 -0500
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From: Clint Wunderlich <cbw@vt.edu>
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Folks,
I am attempting to install Red Hat v4.0 from my hard drive, /hda1. I am
trying to install to /hda2, with my swap partition at /hda3. I originally
was using more partitions on /hdc..., but that had the same problem, so I
tried to simplify it.
My computer is a Dell Pentium 90, which I got in the summer of 1994.
I have 3 IDE HDs, WD, Conner, and Quantum, the first 2 on the primary IDE
ctrlr, the last on the secondary.
I'm trying to do an HD install, and I'm picking all the default options, I
formatted all my partitions, I picked 'install all packages', and everything
goes okay, with one error message: It says "Error: Comps file is not
version 0 as expected", but it seems to continue.
Once it says, "Installing Base...", after about 10 seconds, it says
"rebooting system" and reboots the system, and then I'm back where I started
from.
If I go through the other screens, alt-F2 to alt-F5, one of them has a
gunzip .... skeleton...tgz >tty5 line on it, and there's another line on the
screen that says it's not able to open tty5. These details are sketchy
because I only have a few seconds to read the screen before it reboots.
The only other thing I could see that looked bad was that there was a note
on startup that said ide interface: some number.. buggy, disabling read-ahead.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any help,
Clint
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