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Re: Install reboots on me for no reason- I have read everything I can find...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton B. Wunderlich)
Thu Nov 7 17:17:49 1996

From: "Clinton B. Wunderlich" <cbw@jagnew.cstone.net>
To: sledge@intellinet.com
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 15:11:16 -0500 (EST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9611071228.A1395-0100000@sibyl.intellinet.com> from Todd Hammer at "Nov 7, 96 01:18:37 pm"
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

This is my second post about this, with all the details:

This is all I can think of that is relevant, please let me know what else you need
to know...

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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