Previous installs of what? FC6 Test releases or earlier versions.
I've not had any problems with this hardware since FC3.
This is strictly related to FC/6 Test 3 and it's not just this hardware. I
tried an install at work today on a machine with E-IDE drives and it failed
miserably (same X related problem). However I did successfully get a "linux
text askmethod" installation. That has not worked here at home.
From: alan <alan(a)clueserver.org>
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Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:33:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
>Thanks Alan
>
>I'll try and try that if I ever get that far, however I'm having even more
>problems than that.
>
>During the install just after it announces it's searching for previous
>Fedora installations X hangs forever at that point.
Have previous installs worked on this machine? I have not seen that. I am
using a AMD64 3700+ with 1 gig of ram and a nvidia 440go graphics card and
nforce3 sata chipset.
>I've tried to start in "text" mode and it crashes completely leaving a
lot
>of "giberish" (nice technical term) characters and informs me I need to
>reboot my computer.
I get the X crash after I have fixed everything andf have gone through the
"first boot" screen.
If I wiggle the mouse, it then tells me that the x server has died and
leads me through the steps to rebuild the X config. That seems to fix the
rest of the issues.
Linus refered to this sort of problem as a "paper bag bug". That is a bug
so bad that when released makes the developer want to wear a paper bag over
their head so they will not be recognised.
>I haven't had this much trouble since Redhat 5. This seems more like a
>test 1 than what is supposed to be in fact a release candidate.
I have not seen one this obnoxious since Slackware 3.0.
>
>I'm running a
>
>ASUS A8N-E
>2G of RAM
>Athlon 64 3400
>Dual WD Raptor SATA I drives
>NVidia GeForce 6600 GT video card
>
>Installation media is fine and I've tried two different ones (DVD's that
>is).
>
>>From: alan <alan(a)clueserver.org>
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>>Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
>>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
>>
>>>Has anyone gotten the x86_64 Test 3 to install from the DVD on a box
>>>with SATA drives?
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>Here is the trick to get it to work.
>>
>>Install as normal. (If you already have an install you can skip this
>>step. ]:> )
>>
>>Boot off the same disc in "rescue mode". ("linux rescue")
>>
>>At the prompt:
>>
>>chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>cd /boot
>>mkinitrd -v --image-version --nocompress initrd 2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>>
>>Edit /etc/grub.conf and add the following line:
>>
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>>
>>Save, sync the drive and reboot. With luck (and if you did it right), it
>>should work.
>>
>>I had a problem with X as well, but reconfiguring the x server fixed it.
>>(Just follow the bouncing prompts.)
>>
>>Hope that helps.
>>
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