On 8/30/06,
Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:39 -0400, John Yurcik wrote:
> My hardware is a homebuilt sempron 2800, 512MB ram GeForce FX
> 5500gpu. I have several linux distros installed successfully and have
> had previous fedora installs (FC3 thru FC5).
> I'm using the dvd test2 release which I burned and did a media test
> on-it Passed media test. I've tried the nousb, noprobe, and text
> installer options, but the installer hangs after the "Looking for
> Fedora core installations" annoucement. At that point the screen goes
> black and the system just displays the cursor with the spining
> grahics. No other activity is detectable i.e. no hard drive light and
> no cdrom activity.
>
> Opening consoles F1-F3 gives:
> "Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer please wait ...
> Probing for video card: nVidia Corporation NV#$ [GeForce FX 5500]
> Attempting to start native X server
> Waiting for X server to start ... log located in /tmp/ramfs/Xorg
> 1...2...3...4...5... X server started succesfully.
> Starting graphical installation ...
> install exited abnormally [1/1]
>
> One of the consoles gives me a shell (sh.-3.1)
This has come up before. It is a kernel issue, it is Oopsing trying
to unmount a reiserfs partition, I think.
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