anaconda traceback

[Andrew Farris]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 17:26 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:15 -0500, Richard Hally wrote:
>>> well, it gets past the above error but then X doesn't start so I
>>> select text 
>>> install but it doesn't find any drives to install to. end of story.
>>> this is on a 
>>> box with an intel chipset that runs F8 just fine.
>> And upon saying that, guess I'll wait for a fix or something before
>> trying again, especially for nada.  I don't mind installing via text,
>> but if X isn't going to work post install, then does me no good anyway.
>>
>> So you have intel, I have an ATI x1300 card, and got same thing last
>> time, so there is something wrong with the drivers or something.
> 
> Said heck with it, and tried to do a rawhide install as well, but same
> problem, no luck.  When getting to the partitioning section, it doesn't
> show the drives at all, and can't find the device or whatever.  It does
> see and know my video card, but it won't start up with whatever driver
> it should use, nor would it use vesa neither.

Same situation for me trying an install on vmware fusion with today's boot.iso 
and stage2.img.  No X startup, no install devices.  I mounted a flash drive to 
get dmesg though.  In bugzilla now: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428538

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