On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:09 -0800, Rob Prowel wrote: > Kevin. > > Just saw your post about FC6 install hanging... > > Same thing happens to me, in exactly the same place. > Here's the kicker though. Happens in both the FC5 and > FC6 installs. FC4 installs fine on my dual CPU XEON > with 2GB RAM and over 1TB of disk across two IDE and > two SATA drives. I don't think I'm short on hardware > resources to do the installation. :^P > > I'm seeing EXACTLY the same thing you are as evident > from the log file inclusions below. > > tail of anaconda.log > 13:34:07 INFO : looking for USB mouse... > 13:34:07 INFO : Running anaconda script > /usr/bin/anaconda > 13:34:21 INFO : using only installclass _Fedora > 13:34:21 INFO : _Fedora is only installclass, using > it > 13:34:21 INFO : Display mode = g > 13:34:21 INFO : Method = cdrom://hdb:/mnt/source > 13:34:30 WARNING : no floppy devices found but we'll > try fd0 anyway > 13:34:40 INFO : Started mini-wm > 13:34:40 INFO : Starting graphical installation... > 13:34:46 INFO : no /tmp/fcpconfig; not configuring > zfcp > > > and tail of ps ax > 925 tty1 R+ 6:50 \_ /usr/bin/python > /usr/bin/anaconda -m cdrom://hdb:/mnt/source > --graphical --selinux > > the anaconda task hogs up the CPU and never seems to > continue to the welcome screen in any of the > installation modes: graphic, text, or rescue/expert For some reason I suspect whatever happens AFTER this warning. It's just an INFO message after all, I don't care about zfcp so not configuring it seems right to me, and last when I went poking about in anaconda it looked like the next thing anaconda does is some sort of complicated probe... I to use both PATA and SATA drives. Mine use software RAID 1. Is there any way to make anaconda really verbose, run it in a debugger, or otherwise tell what the heck it's doing?
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