FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble

David Burgess davidburgess at sympatico.ca
Mon Sep 18 21:46:30 UTC 2006


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.

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 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'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 at 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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