F17 vs. Pentium 4

[mwesten]

On 04/12/2012 10:51 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, mwesten wrote:
>
>> On 04/12/2012 07:12 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>> No selinux message, but
>>>> Still no go.
>>>> I took some pictures of the "Details" message,
>>>> but the three are >60KB a piece after processing, >2MB before.
>>>> Should I send them to the list?
>>>
>>> I put them on http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/new16-[123].png
>>>
>>>> After clicking on exit, I saw four copies of the following
>>>> message at the bottom before I had to push reset.
>>>> Error: cannot open Packages database in /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm .
>>>
>>
>> I see, the installer is finding what it needs alright, but just can't
>> complete. Isn't that what the netinstall did to you too?
>>
>> I'm not getting anything at that URL, and I probably won't have a way
>> around whatever it is, either.
>
> Oops.
> http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/new16-1.png
> http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/new16-2.png
> http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/new16-3.png
>
>> Of course, you could give F17 Beta a shot. At this point, however, I
>> would really only recommend using optical media or a LiveUSB for that.
>
> I'll download it.
> I've got one more rather hairy thing to try before trying to use it.
>

Alright, I looked at the pics you posted and it appears that you have 
reproduced this anaconda crash during the bootloader installation:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796472

I was looking at the included exception report and it seems this person 
was installing F16 on the second of two drives with the bootloader going 
on the first.

Is that what you were doing as well?

-Mike