May 31 nightly compose; anaconda, display driver issues

[Steven I Usdansky]

Just installed desktop-x86_64-20100531.03.iso onto my HP s3707c,
(with onboard Geforce 9100 graphics)but haven't booted it yet. 
Two failures of note:
1. Anaconda - complained about inappropriate root partition on the
   hard drive. Had to revert to anaconda-13.42-1.fc13.x86_64 and
   python-meh-0.7.1-1.fc13.noarch
2. mesa-dri-drivers-experimental was not installed, even though it is
   present on the live cd 

Now to see if it'll boot

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 18:19 -0700, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
>  Just installed desktop-x86_64-20100531.03.iso onto my HP s3707c,
>  (with onboard Geforce 9100 graphics)but haven't booted it yet. 
>  Two failures of note:
>  1. Anaconda - complained about inappropriate root partition on the
>     hard drive. Had to revert to anaconda-13.42-1.fc13.x86_64 and
>     python-meh-0.7.1-1.fc13.noarch 
Could you be more specific about the error?

>  2. mesa-dri-drivers-experimental was not installed, even though it
> is
>     present on the live cd  
That's not a bug, it's not intended to be installed by default.
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[Steven I Usdansky]

Sorry, guess I didn't pay enough attention to the error - my reflexive
reaction wasto downgrade and reattempt the installation.

As for not installing mesa-dri-drivers-experimental, I guess I can 
live with it, especially since neither compiz nor mutter want to 
run at the moment. Typical early Rawhide behavior for me.

Most intriguing aspect of the installation, however, is the
initramfs situation. With the initramfs-2.6.34-11.fc14.x86_64.img
created during the installation, when X starts, all I see is a
white screen with scattered colored pixels on it; the system locks
up and I have to use the power-on switch to reboot. However, the
system boots fine if I remove the initrd line from grub.conf