Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 installation problem

[Mario J. Borgnia]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 16:01, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 at 3:24pm, Mario J. Borgnia wrote
> 
> > I am trying to install Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 on a system with
> > the following specs:
> > 
> > CPU: AMD Opteron 246 (dual)
> > RAM: 16 GB
> > Motherboard: Tyan Thunder K8W V1.01a
> > GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
> > 
> > I have tested the installation media and it passed the tests.
> > I boot the system with the installation CDs and it will proceed until
> > loading the GUI but then it aborts with  the following message
> > 
> > Install exited abnormally
> > 
> > And prompts for reboot
> > 
> > I have tried booting with acpi=off and with linux text. Same problem.
> 
> For the preview release and with an 8GB RAM system, I had to boot with 
> 'mem=2048M' to get it to install (and then with acpi=off to boot the 
> installed system).  Give that a shot.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

Thanks for this tip. Unfortunately it did not work. The system rebooted
before finishing loading the kernel.

I tried this both before and after updating the Tyan BIOS with no
progress.

Mario
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