Topic: error occuring in installation of 3.1

[Heiner Sameisky]

Hello,

I just downloaded e-smith 3.1 and tried to install. Everything goes fine until I
type "proceed". After detecting my cdrom it shows the blue welcome-screen
and then hangs. I cannot figure out, what the problem is, so I wrote down the
konsole messages to give you some hints about my system and what happened. (I never had any problems installing Redhat, Debian or Suse on my System...)

Maybe ther is an easy answer to my problem?

Thanks in advance

[BTW: is there any way to write the output at boot-time to some file? It is quite stupid to write it down by hand...]


Konsole 1
...
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb2c0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing for PCI hardware
PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting Kswapd v 1.5
Detect PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
   ide0: BM_DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
   ide1: BM_DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
Welcome to the e-smith server and gateway

Konsole 3

welcome to the e-smith installer
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/fat.o
running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/vfat.o
mounting /tmp/fd0 on /tmp/ks as type vfat
create directory /tmp/ks rc = 0
calling mount(/tmp/fd0, /tmp/ks, vfat, -1058209791, 0x80bd52a)
removing device file /tmp/fd0
removing device file /tmp/fd0
welcome to the e-smith installer
using device hdc
mounting hdc on /tmp/rhimage as type iso9660
creating directory /tmp/rhimage rc = 0
calling mount(/tmp/hdc, /tmp/rhimage, iso9660, -105820979, (nil))
removing device file /tmp/hdc
done here
method selection competed
state saved to /tmp
error in exec of second stage loader
   error:Exec format error

Konsole 4

<4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus = 00 dev 39
<4>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4>   ide0: BM_DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
<4>   ide1: BM_DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
<4>hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, 6571MB w/466kb Cache, CHS=19650/16/63
<4>hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
<6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is post-1991 82077
<4>scsi : 0 hosts.
<4>scsi : detected total.
<4>Partition check:
<4> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 >
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<7>VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
<6>install uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
<7>VFS: Diskchange detected on device ide1(22,0)
<7>ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
<7>ISO 9660 Extension: RRIP_1991A

[Joseph Morrison]

Hello,

Sounds like a strange problem! Are you certain your CDROM is correct and that you downloaded the image in binary mode? The iso file should be 132,001,792 bytes after uncompressing.

The error seems to indicate that part of the installation program on the CDROM is not a valid executable, which suggests data corruption.

Have you tried installing on more than one type of computer?

Best regards,
- Joe Morrison

[Heiner Sameisky]

Hello,

thanks for your fast reply. I already checked both the size of the compressed
and the iso file and they are o.k.

To get closer to the problem I used some program called Winimage to take a
look at the different images. The strange thing is, that while I can open the
images of the install-disk, I get an error-message while trying to open
RedHatasestage2 as well as on some of the other images. Don't know though
if this relates to the problem in any way.

Maybe I need to download the whole thing again?

[Charlie Brady]

Heiner Sameisky wrote:

> thanks for your fast reply. I already checked both the size of
> the compressed and the iso file and they are o.k.
>
> To get closer to the problem I used some program called
> Winimage to take a look at the different images. The strange
> thing is, that while I can open the images of the
> install-disk, I get an error-message while trying to open
> RedHatasestage2 as well as on some of the other images.
> Don't know though if this
> relates to the problem in any way.
>
> Maybe I need to download the whole thing again?

Do you have a linux system that you can look at your CDROM with?
The CDROM needs to have directories "RedHat" and "RedHat/RPMS" - with exactly those cases. Most Windows CD mastering software will not get that right. You also need to have execute bit set
for all the files in "RedHat/instimage/usr/bin". If you burnt the CD directly from the downloaded ISO image, this should all be OK. If you used Windows software and rebuilt the ISO image,
there is a good chance that something has been broken in the process.

Charlie

[Heiner Sameisky]

Hello,

I will give it another try this weekend and tell you, if it worked.

I really appreciate your effort. Thanks