Guest lazyjack Report post Posted February 18, 2005 About 15 seconds after initiating the install the procedure seemed to hang. This surprised me greatly as I have installed a number of different versions of linux on this system previously with no such problem, including Mandrake 9.1. It was so early in the procedure that I began to think there may be a problem with the first CD. The system involved is an HP Pavillion 6511. At the point the installation stops the screen is blank apart from the bottom line that reads: proceeding, please wait. Pressing ALT-F3 gives a screen full of log messages, the last line of which reads: * calling mount( none, /proc/bus/usb, usbdevfs, -1058209792, ) Pressing ALT-F4 gives a screen full of kernel messages, the last line of which reads: <6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed Pressing ALT-F2 gives an active shell. 'ps' shows the running processes including perl executing /usr/bin/runinstall2. CPU percentages indicate no looping processes. 'df' shows the following filesystems mounted: /tmp/image, /tmp/stage2, /. I have no idea what the install is stalled on and I stress that this has not happened with earlier versions of Mandrake, or various RedHat versions either. Is it possible there is a problem with the CD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest anon Report post Posted February 18, 2005 Welcome to the board. Checkout your CDs first. http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=32853 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
linux_learner 0 Report post Posted February 19, 2005 i'm thinking it could be hanging on mounting the file systems (unlikely, but it can happen), or hanging on the detection of usb devices. i saw this happen with conectiva. i would disconnect all usb devices and rerun the install. see what happens. also check the md5sum of the cd. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
