Thanks for the suggestions. It's not looping. ps shows only anaconda running, and strace shows a select() waiting on stdin. When you hit return on the main console, anaconda goes on with the rest of the install. This is an older Dell, 700MHz with just one ATA disk on hda and a CD drive on hdc. -- Peter Fales Lucent Technologies, Room 1C-436 N9IYJ 2000 N Naperville Rd PO Box 3033 internet: psfales@xxxxxxxxxx Naperville, IL 60566-7033 work: (630) 979-8031 On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:11:21PM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Peter Fales wrote: > > >On the second machine (Dell Optiplex GX110), it mostly works, but it > >consistently stalls at the "Installing Bootloader" screen. > > In the bash console (Alt+F2), you can run ps and friends to see whether > it's GRUB/LILO hanging, or anaconda, or ... > > What storage (ATA/SATA/SCSI) comes with that Optiplex? If it's SATA, > there might be some BIOS options which affect the kernel's interaction > with the hardware. > > > Cheers, > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list