Re: linux-alpha: Weird RedHat Installation problem.

Nathan Droft (curne@skids.vestnet.dk)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:09:05 +0200

> > Hello,
[ RedHat/Alpha problem snipped ]
> >
>
> nope, i installed redhat 3.03 over then network on my udb and i was fine.
> you know redhat displays verbose messages on the other virtual terminals,
> so you might want to see where it hangs.
>
> i think one thing i might have to had done was type in the ip address of
> the nfs server rather than the host name.
>
> dave
>

Thank you very much for the well meaning advice but when I said freeze
I meant total freeze! :-) The vt's crash too, no keyboard diodes,
nothing.

If I had been able to check the logs on the other vt's I figure I'd be
home free. No this is more like a failure in the kernel PCI handling
although I honestly can't see what. I've never seen the kernel crash
without errors!

A friend came to the rescue with a RedHat installation on a harddisk
so the problem is no longer pressing but I wonder wether the this is
not still significant. After the installation, when I try to ifconfig
a PCI network card (NE2000 or Digital(de4x5)) the same crash
occurs. No keyboard, no vt, the entire machine stops. Theoretically
(as far as I know) this can only happen if the Card causes an
interrupt to a piece of Linux Code which never returns.

For now I will solve the problem by getting an EISA network adapter
but PCI shouldn't be a problem. I'll try to figure out what's going
on...

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