Very Computer

by **David Stult** » Sun, 07 Dec 1997 04:00:00

I'm trying to install RedHat 5.0, and it fails every time.
I'm installing off a FAT16 partition, and it gets all the way to the point
where it's processing the RPMS directory (just after you tell it where to
find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

The system I'm installing on is this:

(Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
(auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
EtherExpress Pro/10+.

The source partition is a 500 meg FAT16 partition starting at the beginning
of the drive. Then I have a approx. 2 gig NTFS partition and then the last
partition on the drive is the Linux native & swap partitions.

So far the only thing I can think of is the LBA mode (maybe it needs to be
normal instead?), the number of cylinders (BIOS is reporting a bit over 6000
cyls in LBA mode), ... the linux partitions are definitely way past 1024.
I'm trying to avoid switching the drive from LBA to NORMAL unless absolutely
necessary since I'd have to do a loooooot of reinstalling :-).

If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

Dave Stults
stults at engr dot orst dot edu. (Anti-spam defensive measure)

by **Rainshad** » Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
> abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
> sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

> (Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
> (auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
> EtherExpress Pro/10+.

Umm, signal 11 usually means that your memory's acting up... it's not good, and
is seen with incresing frequency when one is overclocking or otherwise
destabilizing one's machine. (I know, I seem to get them at times)

Try taking out some of your memory (but _my_ your machine has a lot!) and
see if this fixes the problem.

-Rain'

by **Steve Bergma** » Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> > find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
> > abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
> > sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

> > (Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
> > (auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
> > EtherExpress Pro/10+.

> Umm, signal 11 usually means that your memory's acting up... it's not good, and
> is seen with incresing frequency when one is overclocking or otherwise
> destabilizing one's machine. (I know, I seem to get them at times)

> Try taking out some of your memory (but _my_ your machine has a lot!) and
> see if this fixes the problem.

Hello,

I am having the same problem. Our systems are similar in some ways.

AMD K6-233
144MB EDO RAM
854MB IDE LBA MODE 4
2.0GB IDE LBA MODE 4
4.3GB IDE LBA MODE 4
1.2GB SCSI II
ADVANSYS ULTRA SCSI Controller
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

If I find an answer I'll post it. We do have a lot of memory. Maybe it
doesn't like > 64MB. Then there's the Diamond Stealth 3D too... BTW,
my K6 is not one of the ones with the Signal 11 bug and I have set my
memory timing conservatively.

Steve Bergman

by **David Stult** » Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:00:00

My apologies for the multiple posts. The news server I was just using kept
telling me it was NOT posting the article, due to some error. I now see
that it was lying to me.

Dave Stults

by **David Stult** » Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:00:00

The problem with my install was the RPMS -- 53 of them were corrupt. I got
them from ftp.geo.net. I replaced the entire set (to be safe) from ones I
got from uark.edu, and all is happy.

Dave Stults

by **David Stult** » Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:00:00

The problem is the RPMS. I got them from ftp.geo.net (very fast, but who
cares now :-). 53 were corrupt, according to the RH 4.2 rpm tool.
tsx-11.mit.edu is missing about 90 megs of the RPMS, also. I downloaded
from the uark.edu mirror (see the RedHat list for the full address) and it
worked great.

I guess RH5.0 is so new that some of the mirror sites haven't worked out the
bugs with their copies.

Dave Stults

by **Dan Gundlac** » Tue, 09 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> > > find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
> > > abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
> > > sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

> > > (Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
> > > (auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
> > > EtherExpress Pro/10+.

> > Umm, signal 11 usually means that your memory's acting up... it's not good, and
> > is seen with incresing frequency when one is overclocking or otherwise
> > destabilizing one's machine. (I know, I seem to get them at times)

> > Try taking out some of your memory (but _my_ your machine has a lot!) and
> > see if this fixes the problem.

> Hello,

> I am having the same problem. Our systems are similar in some ways.

> AMD K6-233
> 144MB EDO RAM
> 854MB IDE LBA MODE 4
> 2.0GB IDE LBA MODE 4
> 4.3GB IDE LBA MODE 4
> 1.2GB SCSI II
> ADVANSYS ULTRA SCSI Controller
> Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

> If I find an answer I'll post it. We do have a lot of memory. Maybe it
> doesn't like > 64MB. Then there's the Diamond Stealth 3D too... BTW,
> my K6 is not one of the ones with the Signal 11 bug and I have set my
> memory timing conservatively.

> Steve Bergman

I had the same problem, right after the section that lets you run fdisk
or disk druid. I have an ASUS tx97
64M SDRAM
7 GIG UDMA IDE
aha152x scsi card
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

I tested my system for the K6 bug a while back, but it was clean (ran it
for over 24 hours).

It worked fine on my no-name pentium 166 system.

by **Phil DeBecke** » Tue, 09 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Hmm... Signal 11 isn't usually good; it tends to mean you have a memory
problem. One potential disaster I see from your system spec: you say
you have an Asus P55TVP4 with 128MB of EDO. The P55TVP4 uses the VX
chipset, which can only cache 64MB of RAM. So you're operating with
64MB of cached and 64MB of uncached RAM. I don't know in what "order"
memory is accessed, but it could possibly be that you're accessing
uncached RAM with timing settings that are too aggressive.

My recommendation would be to take out 64MB and see what happens - linux
will run *just fine* on a setup like that (I have a P55TVP4/64MB FPM/P5-
166MMX) and it may solve your hassle.

Hope this helps
-Phil

> I'm trying to install RedHat 5.0, and it fails every time.
> I'm installing off a FAT16 partition, and it gets all the way to the point
> where it's processing the RPMS directory (just after you tell it where to
> find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
> abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
> sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

> The system I'm installing on is this:

> (Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
> (auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
> EtherExpress Pro/10+.

> The source partition is a 500 meg FAT16 partition starting at the beginning
> of the drive. Then I have a approx. 2 gig NTFS partition and then the last
> partition on the drive is the Linux native & swap partitions.

> So far the only thing I can think of is the LBA mode (maybe it needs to be
> normal instead?), the number of cylinders (BIOS is reporting a bit over 6000
> cyls in LBA mode), ... the linux partitions are definitely way past 1024.
> I'm trying to avoid switching the drive from LBA to NORMAL unless absolutely
> necessary since I'd have to do a loooooot of reinstalling :-).

> If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

> Dave Stults
> stults at engr dot orst dot edu. (Anti-spam defensive measure)

by **Chuck Ada** » Tue, 09 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>Umm, signal 11 usually means that your memory's acting up... it's not good, and
>is seen with incresing frequency when one is overclocking or otherwise
>destabilizing one's machine. (I know, I seem to get them at times)

I am getting sig11 all over the place with 5.0. Nary a peep after I
reverted back to 4.2. I'm thinking the glibc has a few problems with
clones.

by **Leon Visme** » Wed, 10 Dec 1997 04:00:00

> The problem with my install was the RPMS -- 53 of them were corrupt. I got
> them from ftp.geo.net. I replaced the entire set (to be safe) from ones I
> got from uark.edu, and all is happy.

> Dave Stults

Dave I have the same problem, with a signal 11, and was wondering how can I
check,
which RPM files are corrupt. My internet connectionwill not allow a total
re-get :-)

Thanx
Leon

by **c..** » Sun, 08 Mar 1998 04:00:00

>> > > find the stuff), and then it dies with a message "install exited
>> > > abnormally -- received signal 11"... then it gives a couple messages about
>> > > sending kill signals to the system, and says I can safely reboot.

>> > > (Clone) Pentium/166, ASUS P55TVP4 M/B, 128 MB EDO, WD Caviar 3.1GB drive
>> > > (auto setup by BIOS as LBA,Mode 4, 3166MB), Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, Intel
>> > > EtherExpress Pro/10+.

>> > Umm, signal 11 usually means that your memory's acting up... it's not good, and
>> > is seen with incresing frequency when one is overclocking or otherwise
>> > destabilizing one's machine. (I know, I seem to get them at times)

>> > Try taking out some of your memory (but _my_ your machine has a lot!) and
>> > see if this fixes the problem.

>> Hello,

>> I am having the same problem. Our systems are similar in some ways.

>> AMD K6-233
>> 144MB EDO RAM
>> 854MB IDE LBA MODE 4
>> 2.0GB IDE LBA MODE 4
>> 4.3GB IDE LBA MODE 4
>> 1.2GB SCSI II
>> ADVANSYS ULTRA SCSI Controller
>> Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

>> If I find an answer I'll post it. We do have a lot of memory. Maybe it
>> doesn't like > 64MB. Then there's the Diamond Stealth 3D too... BTW,
>> my K6 is not one of the ones with the Signal 11 bug and I have set my
>> memory timing conservatively.

>> Steve Bergman

>I had the same problem, right after the section that lets you run fdisk
>or disk druid. I have an ASUS tx97
>64M SDRAM
>7 GIG UDMA IDE
>aha152x scsi card
>Diamond Stealth 3D 2000

>I tested my system for the K6 bug a while back, but it was clean (ran it
>for over 24 hours).

>It worked fine on my no-name pentium 166 system.

Happens to me too. Asus TX97, Intel233, 64Mb EDO, 2x 4Gb Western
Digital UDMA as LBA, Matrox Millennium 2. Not only does it reboot, it
messes up the partition tables effectively wiping Win95 on hda. If you
have any suggestions how I can install it without risking my elaborate
Win95 setup, I'd like to hear them.

No other trouble on the machine.

Regards,
CJ

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