Re: Fedora 8 install failure

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Chris Snook skrev:
Anders Hartman wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq 8710p laptop.
The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new install, come to the blue screen that loads some drivers and end up at the disk check requester. After the check is done (or skipped), /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and shuts down the system.

I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.3. They install and works flawlessly.
However, I'm a Fedora guy ;-)

Any suggestions?
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Some system facts:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
4 GB RAM
ST9120823AS hard disc
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
Intel WiFi Link 4965AG

Additional info

The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just fine. Can't make a
clean (swedish) install with this though.

I had some nasty problems, quite similar to this, using the F8 x86_64 graphical installer on a few boxes with Nvidia cards. The text installer worked fine though, and the problem went away when I made a respin with revisor that used newer packages. Try the Fedora Unity respin.

    -- Chris


Hello Chris,

I have now tried the following with Fedora 8 Unity 20080204 respin:

Install with graphical UI.
Install with text UI.
Install with text UI using kernel modifiers (noprobe, headless, noapic, acpi=off) one at the time.
Use boot.img from the DVD to do a text install over the network.

I'm getting a stack dump all the time.

The kernel seems to be alive though. Alt-F2,Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 still works. I can't see any trace of
what went wrong in anacron.log or syslog.

Booting up in rescue mode from the DVD also works.

I wonder what's missing in Fedora that OpenSUSE and Ubunto has.

More things to try?

Digging deeper and deeper
/Anders

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