On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 23:14 +0200, Josep Puigdemont wrote: > El ds 16 de 09 del 2006 a les 13:04 -0700, en/na listman va escriure: > > I've tried 2 different dvd iso's (different servers and can not boot > > either one ( FC-6-Test3-x86_64-DVD.iso) > > Home built / ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce SPP 100 ATX > > AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz > > 2048MB corsair XMS 3500LLPro > > Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 > > RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s > > eVGA 256-P2-N584-AR Geforce 7900GT KO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card > > > > I then downloaded the cd ISO. I got to the beginning of the install, check > > the media (was ok) then as soon as it searches for a previous install the > > screen goes black - can see the cursor still but it just hangs. If I go to > > the console I see a ton of errors ( how can I export this info) > > I have tried text and noprobe but I still get the same thing, except in > > text only mode I cant even read the errors- its just a bunch of strange > > characters. > > I didn't have the problems you face above, but I've seen the strange > characters in console you mentioned. Here is a picture I took of the > screen: > http://dsv.su.se/~icss-jpc/fedora/anaconda01.jpg > > I am not 100% sure about it, but the strange characters seem to appear > after some kernel modules are loaded (I could see raid stuff in the > second console, although I don't have raid). > > The big blue area in the middle of the screenshot is due to the media > check dialog (which I ran, and was ok). I can't remember if the > characters in the media check dialog where also strange or not. I think > they were, but then how could I say that the media check was ok... > As it can be seen at the bottom, before starting the graphical installer > the characters appear normally. The rest seemed to work fine (I didn't > do the whole install). > I tested the installed on another computer, with very different > hardware, and I didn't have those issues. I think this may be a fairly common problem -- I had the exact same results on a ThinkPad T43. It seems to be fixed in current Rawhide, but due to the currently MIA stage2.img you'll be forced to do a text-only install for now. I'm not sure, but I think I saw someone mention this was related to the squashfs memory corruption issue in BZ #206472, et al. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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