Gene Poole wrote:
All,
I've just experienced one of the most unnerving situations. I've a
custom built machine that WAS running the following:
ECS GeForce 6100SM-M mother board
AMD 64 X2 Dual core 5600+
4GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
nVidia GT7300 PCIE 256MB video card
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 320 GB WD and 1 - 500GB Seagate
550 watt Antec power supply
Fedora 9 x86_64 with all of the latest patches
As my Xmas present I upgraded the machine to:
Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mother board
AMD Phenom Quad core 9550
8GB RAM DDR2 800 Mhz
Retained the video card from above
2 - SATA Hard drives; 1 - 500 GB Seagate and 1 - 1TB Seagate
850 watt Antec power supply
I attempted to install, from the same DVD used on the original machine,
Fedora 9 x86_64 with 4 failures at just about the same place while
installing packages. I used my i386 Fedora 9 DVD and all went well
during the install so attempted to do a upgrade to x86_64 without luck.
I did a test using my Fedora 8 x86_64 DVD and it installed perfectly.
I then attempted to do a upgrade to Fedora 9 without any luck (it
appeared to fail at about the same place). I then downloaded and burned
another copy of the Fedora 9 x86_64 DVD, checked it and attempted to do
another install and one again it failed at about the same place.
What could possibly be happening? I since reinstalled Fedora 8, but
that has reached it's E-O-L. Should I just attempt to go to Fedora 10
x86_64? Should I have entered something in the boot parameters
concerning the additional memory?
Any help or advice would be great!
Thanks,
Gene Poole
a) When you say "upgrade", do you mean telling Anaconda to upgrade an existing
installation? Anaconda doesn't have logic to handle migrating from i386 to
x86_64, so it's not expected to work. Upgrading from F8 i386 to F9 i386 or F10
i386 generally should work. If you want to switch architectures, you need a
fresh install.
b) You haven't given us any diagnostic information at all. F9 and F10 wouldn't
have been released if x86_64 builds routinely failed to install, and there's
nothing exotic about your hardware, so it's highly unlikely that anyone is going
to immediately know what's wrong with your setup. Please at least give us an
error message or something.
-- Chris
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