FW: [Malvern] Help!!

[Ian Pascoe]

Evening Steve

This ain't going to be much help but you're not alone!

There has been quite a few postings onto the accessability lists I'm on
about FC 6 either stalling during set up, or breaking at odd points when
running.

With my I haven't a clue hat, couldn't you install FC 4 and upgrade?

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Steve Cashmore
Sent: 13 December 2006 14:22
To: Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Malvern] Help!!


Seasons greetings everyone!

Please, I need some help installing Fedora Core 6 on an almost bog
standard desktop machine.  Please don't tell me to use a different
distro, I have reasons for using FC6!

Basically the DVD installation stalls immediately after the 2nd screen
which is selecting the keyboard type.  The screen clears the window in
preparation for the next step and - nothing.

1  The motherboard is an Intel 845E with on-board Promise ATA raid
controller.

2  The machine is multiple boot with an existing fully working FC4
installation in a partition on a 2nd disk on the Promise controller.

3  I can see no obvious errors on tty3 & 4.  There *is* an 'audit'
message on tty4 which looks like a SELINUX log.  But as far as I can
tell SELINUX isn't activated at this point.

4  After locking up I still have a usable command line on tty2, and can
see and mount the existing linux installation.  So there isn't a missing
Promise driver issue.

5  One of the two anaconda / python installation processes is stuck at
100% cpu.

6  I have tried text and graphic mode install options with exactly the
same error at the same point.

7  I have tried options like noprobe, acpi=off, and reducing memory with
mem=840M to no avail.  Locks up at the same point.

8  Even the rescue mode fails in the device.py script with a "size must
be positive" message on enumerating the disk partitions.

9  The DVD (loaned from Geoff) validates OK.

So linux gurus please help me out, I can't yet think of a way around the
probs.


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