On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
Nope, the install does not complete, as a matter of fact it doesn't even
really start.
It gets as far as "Searching for previous installations", the screen suddenly
goes black and that is that.
I have to do a hardware reset.
Try hitting ctrl-alt-F3 before it gets to that point and see if there are
any identifiable errors that are getting kicked out. Also see if you can
use the rescue disc to grab the install log. Might help in figuring out
what is going wrong. It works on mine, but I have some differences in
hardware.
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Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:58:24 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
Previous installs of what? FC6 Test releases or earlier versions.
I've not had any problems with this hardware since FC3.
This is strictly related to FC/6 Test 3 and it's not just this hardware.
I tried an install at work today on a machine with E-IDE drives and it
failed miserably (same X related problem). However I did successfully get
a "linux text askmethod" installation. That has not worked here at home.
I am getting confused.
Does the install complete or do you even get that far?
If you do get it installed, does the initrd fix actually get you any
farther?
I have not experienced any hangs on the install. It installs fine, just
kernel panics on reboot.
There is an x issue I have seen, but it only happens after the firstboot
process is completed.
If you use a rescue disc, are you also to get access to the install logs?
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Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
Thanks Alan
I'll try and try that if I ever get that far, however I'm having even
more problems than that.
During the install just after it announces it's searching for previous
Fedora installations X hangs forever at that point.
Have previous installs worked on this machine? I have not seen that. I
am using a AMD64 3700+ with 1 gig of ram and a nvidia 440go graphics card
and nforce3 sata chipset.
I've tried to start in "text" mode and it crashes completely leaving a
lot of "giberish" (nice technical term) characters and informs me I need
to reboot my computer.
I get the X crash after I have fixed everything andf have gone through
the "first boot" screen.
If I wiggle the mouse, it then tells me that the x server has died and
leads me through the steps to rebuild the X config. That seems to fix
the rest of the issues.
Linus refered to this sort of problem as a "paper bag bug". That is a
bug so bad that when released makes the developer want to wear a paper
bag over their head so they will not be recognised.
I haven't had this much trouble since Redhat 5. This seems more like a
test 1 than what is supposed to be in fact a release candidate.
I have not seen one this obnoxious since Slackware 3.0.
I'm running a
ASUS A8N-E
2G of RAM
Athlon 64 3400
Dual WD Raptor SATA I drives
NVidia GeForce 6600 GT video card
Installation media is fine and I've tried two different ones (DVD's that
is).
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Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
Has anyone gotten the x86_64 Test 3 to install from the DVD on a box
with SATA drives?
Yes.
Here is the trick to get it to work.
Install as normal. (If you already have an install you can skip this
step. ]:> )
Boot off the same disc in "rescue mode". ("linux rescue")
At the prompt:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
cd /boot
mkinitrd -v --image-version --nocompress initrd 2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
Edit /etc/grub.conf and add the following line:
initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
Save, sync the drive and reboot. With luck (and if you did it right),
it should work.
I had a problem with X as well, but reconfiguring the x server fixed
it. (Just follow the bouncing prompts.)
Hope that helps.
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