On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:06, Florin Andrei wrote: > What's up with the FC2 installer? It crashes when attempting install on > a VIA Epia M6000 mobo, right at the beginning, after hitting enter at > the first prompt. The bootloader starts loading up the kernel, but then > something (the kernel? something else?) just bombs out. I don't even get > to see any kernel message, it's just "sudden death" (spontaneous > reboot). I seem to recall this having been discussed when FC2 was released, and that there was a kernel problem with some VIA processors that was fixed later on. Arjan made a boot ISO image with a later kernel that might get you going: http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/c3boot-2.iso > FC3test1 seems to be working fine though, so that's why i don't think > i'll file a bug report. Makes sense if it is actually this problem... /Per -- Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
