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RH 7.3 install problems
« on: 11 May 2002, 01:45 »
well.. maybe those CDs i burned werent a waste. I downloaded the isos using wget and burned them again for Red Hat 7.3.
I deleted all the partitions on my computer (they were really in a screwed up order), and tried to boot off my RH 7.3 CD. It goes to the first screen where i press enter, then it starts to load the installation stuff, but then it suddenly says: loading installer (or something similar)
loading /sbin/loader
installation exited abnormally: error 11 (or "something" 11)
killing
you can restart your compputer now.

Doesnt anyone know what the hell might have went wrong??
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« Reply #1 on: 11 May 2002, 01:59 »
Hmmmm... I have seen that on one PC at work, which seemed to work OK on Windows 2000 and FreeBSD but gave "Signal 11" errors on installation of RH7.2.

From RedHat's site:

 
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Is Your System Displaying Signal 11 Errors?

If you receive a fatal signal 11 during your installation, it is probably due to a hardware error in memory on your system's bus. A hardware error in memory can be caused by problems in executables or with the system's hardware. Like other operating systems, Red Hat Linux places its own demands on your system's hardware. Some of this hardware may not be able to meet those demands, even if they work properly under another OS.

Check to see if you have the latest installation and supplemental boot diskettes from Red Hat. Review the online errata to see if newer versions are available. If the latest images still fail, it may be due to a problem with your hardware. Commonly, these errors are in your memory or CPU-cache. A possible solution for this error is turning off the CPU-cache in the BIOS. You could also try to swap your memory around in the motherboard slots to see if the problem is either slot or memory related.

For more information concerning signal 11 errors, refer to http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/.  


So, if you've got more than one DIMM in your system, try swapping them around, and try turning off the CPU-cache as suggested above.

To be honest I didn't bother trying this on the system I had at work, 'cos FreeBSD did what I needed to do and worked, so I used that. But it is most likely a hardware problem.

Have you previously successfully used a RedHat OS on that exact hardware configuration?

[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: IanC ]


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« Reply #2 on: 11 May 2002, 19:27 »
shit...
could it be that linux doesnt support my video card????
I installed my video card after i installed redhat7.2 and then had to get the drivers for it.
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« Reply #3 on: 11 May 2002, 20:05 »
You could find out that for sure by doing the installation in text mode - that should work no matter what video card you have or whether it's supported.

I found that the system at work was crashing with signal 11 even in text-mode installation (in fact I always use text-mode) and I wasn't trying to install X on this machine anyway.

I would say it's much more likely to be a problem with the motherboard or RAM - though it seems strange that you managed to install 7.2 sucessfully on that machine and not 7.3?

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« Reply #4 on: 12 May 2002, 02:22 »
ya, i tried text mode and it didnt work.
I had RedHat 7.2, Debian, and FreeBSD working on this very same computer too.
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« Reply #5 on: 12 May 2002, 03:25 »
Maybe you didn't get a good disk image, did you run the checksums?
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« Reply #6 on: 12 May 2002, 21:35 »
i could install redhat7.3 just fine on my other computer using the disks. I can install RH7.2 just fine on my computer. But for some reason RH7.3 doesnt work on that computer.
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« Reply #7 on: 12 May 2002, 10:09 »
So much for the bad CD theory... You can always keep RH7.2 and just upgrade all the packages except for the kernel (I know, pain in the ass). Something with the newer kernel must not like your hardware. Might want to check http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
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