Fedora 8 install failure

[Anders Hartman]

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.

/andha

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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? 
Hi Anders,

Could you try a Re-Spin from Fedora Unity? They have been built using a 
newer kernel and could therefore resolve the problem. I'm not sure that 
it actually does, but it may.

The Re-Spins are available on http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins using 
Jigdo or Torrent.

-- 
Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Chris Snook]

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?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  
>  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

[Anders Hartman]

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?
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > 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

Fedora 8 install failure [SOLVED]

[Anders Hartman]

Anders Hartman skrev:
>  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?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>  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.
>
>  /andha
>
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The solution to this problem was to add kernel option 'nopcmcia' when 
booting up.
Now I have a working FC8 system with a defunct PCMCIA subsystem. Moving on
to find out what FC8 has against my PCMCIA hardware.

/Anders