Crashing during install

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atopian · Post by **atopian** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 2:54 am

Anyone else getting part way through the install and then having their system lock on them.

No, its not heat, its not bad hardware.

Specs:

Duel athalon 1800+
1 gig DDR registered ram
Tyan 2460 MB

System worked ok in redhat, becides with the GART bug.

sawsedge · Post by **sawsedge** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 1:10 pm

Since I've not seen anyone else mention this, I must be having an unusual problem.

I downloaded the large i686 iso and made a CD. When I boot, it skips the language question and then hangs on the USB device detection. I have a logitech USB optical mouse, and a USB joystick. When I unplug both and use the mouse with a PS/2 adapter, it boots fine (does not skip the language question) and gets to the bash prompt, where I can start my setup.

Here is my hardware:
soyo 6ba+3 mainboard
celeron2 566 cpu - (o/c to 850)
logitech usb mouse (optical wheel mouse)
ms sidewinder usb joystick
ps/2 keyboard
384 megs of pc100 ram
voodoo3 video
maxtor 20 gig and 15 gig IDE harddrives
sony 48x ide cdrom
plextor 32/12/10 cd-rw ide drive
smc 10mb (ne2k) ethernet pci
sound blaster value (emu10k) pci
adaptec 2904? (aic7xxx driver) pci SCSI with zip100 and nikon ls-30 scanner attached

This setup works fine with win2k and mandrake 8.x. Any ideas? I've not tried to install yet, even with just the ps/2 devices.

static · Post by **static** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 1:13 pm

Mine did the same thing on the usb, but I rebooted and tried again, and within a few seconds of stopping in the same place, I hit <enter> and was at the root prompt (#) Try that.

pr0vidence · Post by **pr0vidence** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 1:29 pm

On mine it would crash while compiling (boot strap or system, it seemed random) after trying it several times I tried increasing the swap partition size, and that worked, it has not crashed yet. I don't know if that is your problem, but it's a suggestion (if you getting to the compiling phase of the install) my box has 96MB of memory and I made a 250MB swap.

sawsedge · Post by **sawsedge** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 6:37 pm

Hey Static,

Thanks, I'll try hitting enter when I get home. I don't recall if I tried it or not. ;-) It makes sense if it printed the usb detection results after it printed the language question...

Crashing during install

Crashing during install

hanging during initial boot from CD with USB devices

apparent usb hangs