Bug#352973: Install: hang after Freeing unused kernel memory:
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
Image version: <Fill in date and from where you got the image>
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: PC: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS(2A69KQ19)AWARD SOFTWARE CMOS.
Processor:PENTIUM(R) III 500MHz, 1 HD
Memory: 128MB
Partitions: SHould have a single partition with an old Windows 2000 OS
(which wasn't working either)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Very basic install with boot.img floppy, or with Etch CD, give same
result: system installs as far as:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
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(hangs at - )
Previous lines reported;
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard...
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCR enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <info...
RAMDISK driver initialised: 16 RAM disks of 1838K sixze 1024 blocksize
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8 KBytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 642k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Mounted devfs on /dev
VFS: Mouted root (ext2 filesystem)
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k freed
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I should point out I am a novice at Linux/server installs!
Thanks,
Helen
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Dr. Helen Imogen Field
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Senior Research Associate
Department of Oncology,
Strangeways Research Laboratory,
Worts Causeway,
Cambridge,
CB1 8RN
01223 740556
http://www.srl.cam.ac.uk/oncology
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