Fedora Core 5 Install Hell . . .

[cheiron19]

I am a returning user to Linux. I used to have FC3 installed on a small system that finally died earlier this year. That install was great and simple, this has been a nightmare.

First off, a little hardware information. I'm running a ASUS P4PE with onboard Broadcom Ethernet and a Promise SATA Controller, the Chip is a P4 2.8, with 1G of system memory. The Video Card is a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB, the Sound Card a SB Audigy 2 Platinum and I am running two SATA Drive of 120G each. The first contains W2K and the second I have freed up for FC5.

I have checked the MD5 for the iso images and the media disks prior to installation and all was good there.

Begin installation and the installer recognizes the promise controller and installs the driver for this just fine. Next it installs anaconda and starts the X server for graphical installation. I get a black screen with the X cursor for the mouse and then nothing happens. Rebooted and tried again with the same results after waiting 10 minutes.

Resorted to atempting a text install and came to a blue screen with no text on it after anaconda began and again a hang.

Attempted an install with no probe and recevied the same results.

I am at a loss here and could use a little help, because at this point I am beyond frustration. :mad:

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.

[tashirosgt]

Try adding the option lowres to the grub boot line. Or try some others listed by Dog-One:
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25826

[egr]

I have a ASUS K8N4-E Deluxe
md5sum and sha1sum was good for image, but media check failed anyway and if i'd like to skip it setup did freeze on same stage as yours, boot installer with "linux ide=nodma" did help me however as I see you're using SATA so I don't think it'll be much of use for you. I had even more problems with FC5 but apparently BIOS update to the latest beta did solve half of them

[AndersM]

I'm experiencing this issue as well - when using X all I get when anaconda starts is a black 640x480 X screen with the default X mouse cursor, and the text install hangs with a blue screen after anaconda starts. ps -ef on tty2 shows anaconda running and consuming lots of CPU.

I'm running a Athlon64 computer with a nForce3 based motherboard (MSI K8N Neo2), a and Geforce6800 video card.

[AndersM]

Some further googling turned up this email thread (http://threebit.net/mail-archive/fedora-list/msg08380.html).

There's also a bugzilla bug registered with these symptoms (linked to from the email thread): Bug 186428 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186428). The proposed solution in bugzilla is to add nodmraid to the list of kernel boot options.

I'll reboot and test this now.

[cheiron19]

OK, thanks to those that replied and helped the newb with this install. The linux nodmraid worked great and I am now writing this from my new installation of FC5.

Thanks again!

[foxmuldar]

I installed FC5 and it was going good then....screen freeze three or four times...then i was downloaading updates and about a third of the way through that it rebooted and i lost all connection with both hard drives...turned it off for the night and the next day it booted fine as if nothing had happen...any thoughts on why this happen?

Thanks...
foxmuldar,

[AndersM]

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me, so I'm still running FC4. Considering doing the upgrade using yum, just like I've gone from FC1 to FC4 (using apt instead of yum, going via FC2 and FC3) instead, if anaconda just refuses to work...

[JN4OldSchool]

My problem was cured with "linux vesa" at the boot prompt.