FC2: Installation not working

m_ochse · #1 21st May 2004, 06:46 PM

Hi,

got no problems installing FC1 so far, but when it comes to FC2, right after entering "linux text" the installation media wants to boot into the kernel image, but then the system reboots.

Does anyone have a similar problem?

Here my specs:

P4, 2,8GHz, 1GB RAM
IDE=80 GIG
SATA=160 GIG

I even tried the following: "linux ide=nodma acpi=off apm=off text noprobe" but still the system reboots.

Thanks for your help in advance.

LordMorgul · #2 21st May 2004, 07:06 PM

Those hardware specs mean you've got a recent, powerful mobo... if it is an asus p4p800 you'll be interested in this bug:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/....cgi?id=121819

If it is another board, search bugzilla for mention of your mobo model and post the issue if it is not there.

m_ochse · #3 21st May 2004, 07:16 PM

Thanks for your information!

You were right, it is a p4p800. Read the whole bug @ RedHat, but it is kind a really weird

Will see if I can get work around that one

Marco.

m_ochse · #4 21st May 2004, 09:58 PM

Well I tried all suggestions mentioned in the RedHat Bugzilla, but unfortunately without any luck.

Does anyone know so far, if the Core Team is working on this issue!?

Actually I can't really believe that the Fedora Team leaked such a great bug into the Final Release

Maybe it's time for a distro change

What y'all think!?

chamberl · #5 22nd May 2004, 11:51 AM

Here's what I did based on comments from the bugzilla entry. Because I don't have a USB key, I used the DVD iso, but I would imagine the CD1 image would work just as well.

I did this in FC1.

1. Download the diskboot.img.bz2 from comment #64 and bunzip.
2. mkdir /tmp/diskimg.dir
3. (as root) mount diskboot.img /tmp/diskimg.dir -o loop
4. mkdir /tmp/dvdimg.dir
5. (as root) mount FC2-i386-DVD.iso /tmp/dvdimg.dir -o loop
6. mkdir /tmp/dvdimg_new.dir
7. cp -rp /tmp/dvdimg.dir /tmp/dvdimg_new.dir
8. cp /tmp/diskimg.dir/isolinux/initrd.img /tmp/dvdimg_new.dir/isolinux
9. cp /tmp/diskimg.dir/isolinux/vmlinuz /tmp/dvdimg_new.dir/isolinux
10. mkisofs -J -R -v -T -o FC2-DVD-new.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /tmp/dvdimg_new.dir
11. Burn resulting image and boot.

I ended up doing a clean install because I borked up my FC1 trying a yum upgrade, so I can't help with any upgrade issues.

HTH

LordMorgul · #6 23rd May 2004, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by m_ochse
Does anyone know so far, if the Core Team is working on this issue!?

Yes.. but the more accurate information and failed attempts at working around the problem are reported to them.. the more info they have to work with... this is a non-trivial bug, it isn't like fixing a typo in a python script.

dkinard · #7 29th May 2004, 01:34 PM

FC2 release version - install loop. M571 motherboard, CYRIX M-II 300 MHZ processor, 128 MB motherboard. Currently has dual boot windows 98 SE, and Rh linux 7.3. Various linux boot options tried (skipddc, noprobe, resolution, acpi, single, mem, apm, vdso, nofb).

LordMorgul · #8 29th May 2004, 08:58 PM

Make sure to report to bugzilla, the developers essentially do not know about it.. if its not there. Add your system specs and experience (what happened) to a bug or create a new one if you cannot find anything relevant to your system.