Hi,
This is about Valhalla on a Compaq Presario 1210US notebook.
I used to install Seawolf on it by passing "nousb" parameter, but now
cannot upgrade it to Valhalla because loader gets frozen after
loading *new* usb module, and I can't find a way to avoid this since 7.3
seems to be oblivious to "nousb" parameter (though documented, so any
comments?)
So I rpm-installed 7.3 on Seawolf and passed at boot-prompt "reconfig"
parameter to kernel (which, also has a "nousb" appended to it in
lilo.conf). However, the beast freezes right after detecting monitor
type. I managed to localize the faulting code fragment to:
# only probe if we're installing a real box or
# we're running in a virtual console and need to startup X server
if not os.environ.has_key('DISPLAY') or flags.setupFilesystems:
sys.stdout.write(_("Probing for mouse type: "))
mousehw.probe (frob = 1)
sys.stdout.write(mousehw.shortDescription()+'\n')
else:
sys.stdout.write(_("Skipping mouse probe.\n"))
When I comment this piece out, anaconda carries on until floppy probe,
and freezes again, not sure if it's floppy or the code beyond it, i.e.
id = instClass.installDataClass(extraModules, floppyDevice, configFileData)
#id = instClass.installDataClass(extraModules, floppyDevice)
if mousehw:
id.setMouse(mousehw)
Is there a way out, other than installing/upgrading rpms one by one?
Best regards,
A. Alper ATICI
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