F17-Alpha DVD basic install success with comments

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 21:31 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
> > Overall assessment - a smooth and positive experience.
> 
> I downloaded the Beta Release Candidate 1 and just tried to install it to a 
> spare partition.
> 
> This is what happened:
> 
> The computer booted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, then a 
> message appeared in the upper left corner about "trying to allocate 1135 
> pages... for vmlinuz" (I think it said).
> 
> Then the computer rebooted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, 
> then a message appeared in the upper left corner about "trying to allocate 1135 
> pages... for vmlinuz" (I think it said).
> 
> Then the computer rebooted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, 
> then a message appeared in the upper left corner about "trying to allocate 1135 
> pages... for vmlinuz" (I think it said).
> 
> Then the computer rebooted, read the DVD, said it would boot it in 3 seconds, 
> then a message appeared in the upper left corner about "trying to allocate 1135 
> pages... for vmlinuz" (I think it said).
> 
> etc.
> 
> It never booted the DVD and I never managed to get an install screen. The 
> computer just kept rebooting.
> 
> Overall assessment: I have never experienced such a complete and total failure 
> with a Fedora installation (and I have often installed alpha and beta 
> releases).

Did you checksum it?

There's not an awful lot of reason for it to fail that early and that
catastrophically when it demonstrably doesn't for several other testers
(see the validation results filed so far).
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