Hi, I tested the installation CD again and I think the problem (in my case) is the sata_promise driver. See below. El ds 16 de 09 del 2006 a les 23:14 +0200, en/na Josep Puigdemont va escriure: > 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). After retesting, I realize this happens right after loading the sata_promise kernel driver. I tested several times with and without the SATA controller enabled in the BIOS, and the strange characters _always_ appear once the sata_promise is loaded. Related to this problem, I've previously filed a bug (#199142) against the kernel for FC5 (all 2.6.17 kernels have this problem for me). When booting, I could see a "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference" message. Disabling the SATA controller makes this error message disappear. I think there must be some bug in that driver that causes the two problems. The sata controller that I disabled on the BIOS is P20579. My motherboard is microstar K8T Neo 2. For more info, the whole output of lspci is on the bug report mentioned above. > > 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... I was wrong, I can confirm that the media check messages were actually clear text: http://dsv.su.se/~icss-jpc/fedora/anaconda02.jpg > 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). During one of the tests, I had the problem with the black screen. When the graphical installer is to start, the screen went black and couldn't do anything, neither could I see the mouse pointer, nor could I go back to the text consoles. I had to reset the computer. That could be the memory corruption Paul mentions (BZ #206472), but I could not reproduce it, it's strange that only happened once out of 10 tests I did (I would expect it to be more deterministic). Is there a bug report filled about the strange characters, by the way? Hope it helps. /Josep -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
