Chris Snook skrev:
Anders Hartman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq 8710p laptop.
> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new install, come to
> the blue screen that
> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check requester. After the
> check is done (or skipped),
> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and shuts down the
> system.
>
> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.3. They
> install and works flawlessly.
> However, I'm a Fedora guy ;-)
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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>
> Some system facts:
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
> 4 GB RAM
> ST9120823AS hard disc
> NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
> Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
> Intel WiFi Link 4965AG
>
> Additional info
>
> The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just fine. Can't make a
> clean (swedish) install with this though.
I had some nasty problems, quite similar to this, using the F8 x86_64
graphical installer on a few boxes with Nvidia cards. The text
installer worked fine though, and the problem went away when I made a
respin with revisor that used newer packages. Try the Fedora Unity
respin.
-- Chris
Hello Chris,
I have now tried the following with Fedora 8 Unity 20080204 respin:
Install with graphical UI.
Install with text UI.
Install with text UI using kernel modifiers (noprobe, headless, noapic,
acpi=off) one at the time.
Use boot.img from the DVD to do a text install over the network.
I'm getting a stack dump all the time.
The kernel seems to be alive though. Alt-F2,Alt-F3 and Alt-F4 still
works. I can't see any trace of
what went wrong in anacron.log or syslog.
Booting up in rescue mode from the DVD also works.
I wonder what's missing in Fedora that OpenSUSE and Ubunto has.
More things to try?
Digging deeper and deeper
/Anders