Thanks for the response I did search the archieves but obviously didn't come upon a relevent thread. Is there a easy way around this? I do have reiserfs on my drives.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Matthias Clasen</b> <<a href="mailto:mclasen@redhat.com">mclasen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:39 -0400, John Yurcik wrote:<br>> My hardware is a homebuilt sempron 2800, 512MB ram GeForce FX<br>> 5500gpu. I have several linux distros installed successfully and have<br>> had previous fedora installs (FC3 thru FC5).
<br>> I'm using the dvd test2 release which I burned and did a media test<br>> on-it Passed media test. I've tried the nousb, noprobe, and text<br>> installer options, but the installer hangs after the "Looking for
<br>> Fedora core installations" annoucement. At that point the screen goes<br>> black and the system just displays the cursor with the spining<br>> grahics. No other activity is detectable i.e. no hard drive light and
<br>> no cdrom activity.<br>><br>> Opening consoles F1-F3 gives:<br>> "Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer please wait ...<br>> Probing for video card: nVidia Corporation NV#$ [GeForce FX 5500]
<br>> Attempting to start native X server<br>> Waiting for X server to start ... log located in /tmp/ramfs/Xorg<br>> 1...2...3...4...5... X server started succesfully.<br>> Starting graphical installation ...<br>
> install exited abnormally [1/1]<br>><br>> One of the consoles gives me a shell (sh.-3.1)<br><br>This has come up before. It is a kernel issue, it is Oopsing trying<br>to unmount a reiserfs partition, I think.<br>
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