[Malvern] Help!!

[Richard Forster]

I saw this on some servers at work recently. It was actually FC5 that 
was being installed but the system stopped just like yours after the 
keyboard selection.

I put it down to a faulty hard drive which dell swapped with a friendly 
service and no quibble (once I threatened the Indian I would send a 
letter to the office of Michael Dell if they hung up on me again)

I had been using dd to copy the image from the first server, once 
installed, onto each hard drive from the other servers plus 2 spares 
that were bought. One of the spares failed to dd properly, stopping 
after 64GB instead of 80GB. So I tried a normal install which just froze 
after the keyboard selection. Hence the faulty hard drive verdict.

Am I right in reading that you have a one hard drive that you are trying 
to install onto and a second hard drive with FC4 on? Can you try a third 
  hard drive?




Steve Cashmore wrote:
> 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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