On Friday 30 November 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >Gene Heskett writes: >> On Thursday 29 November 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>On Thursday 29 November 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>>>Gene Heskett writes: >>>>> HP-dv5120us, amd turion 64 bit cpu, gig of ram, 100 GB drive. >>>>> It gets to the bit about skipping the media test (it already passed >>>>> that several times previously on this dvd) >>>>> >>>>> then I get a blue screen with the prompts across the bottom, and a >>>>> >>>>> "Welcome to Fedora for 386" >>>>> >>>>> across the top, and it sits there. And it does this regardless of the >>>>> mode I choose to do the install/upgrade. >>>>> >>>>> Whats Next? >>>> >>>>Well, try booting with "nohz=off noapic". That worked for me on one >>>> cranky laptop. >>> >>>Must have been the magic twanger,, it ran anaconda and now says >> >> [...] >> >>>off. Looks like the starter pistol must have fired, I'll be back if any >>> more gotcha's show up. >> >> I guess they did, it has been stuck, with the HD led on, but no dvd >> activity, at 99% in the dependency check since about 7 hours ago. The >> machine is relatively cool, so its not working very hard. No response to >> the tab, alt+tab, space, or F12 keys. >> >> What is next folks? > >The 99% halt in dependency check is, I believe, a known bug if you have some >packages installed from non-Fedora repositories (Livna, FreshRPMS, etc…) >whose dependencies cannot be groked by anaconda; although your ALT-Fx should >still work, though. In other words, the anaconda got trapped on the bottom too long and drowned. Serves it right. >Take an inventory of all the stuff that you have installed from non-Fedora >sources, and nuke them via rpm -e. You can reinstall them later, after the >ugprade. I had only 4 packages all related to mplayer to nuke and the yum update is still at work. On package 512's dl ATM. Thanks, it might come in handy when I do this box. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Cropp's Law: The amount of work done varies inversly with the time spent in the office. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
