Hangs at "running /sbin/loader"

[TTA89]

I tried installing from the DVD and also downloaded the boot.iso and burnd it to a CD and the both hang on running /sbin/loader

This is on a Dell D410 and I also tried it on a Dell D400 too. I used the DVD to load up a desktop so I know it works.

Is there some kind of Dell issue?

[TTA89]

I searched around and added this to the installer.

floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 clocksource=acpi_pm

It worked and its installing. Seems to be a common issue on Dell Laptops, how could the dev team has missed this?

I just tried it on another Dell laptop with the same result, doesn't work on any of mine without adding that line.

[scottro]

Maybe none of them have Dell laptops.

Seriously, there's all sorts of things that developers miss, or design decisions that they make that we might think are wrong. It's easy for us to say, how could you be so foolish|careless|ignorant or whatever. However, one assumes that when they *know* there's a problem, they don't release it.

That's part of the purpose of bugzilla, making sure that they do know of various problems that they might have simply not had while writing the code.

The /sbin/loader thing though is something that I would give relatively low priority--it's more an inconvenience than show stopper--as you probably know from your search on the forums, eventually, it will continue.