Bug 432549

Created attachment 294692 [details]
anaconda dump

Did you verify your media?

several times and every time it verified ok

Reassigning to kernel based on the following error messages, which are
indicative of driver problems, hardware problems, or media problems (which seem
to be ruled out by running media check):

<3>SQUASHFS error: zlib_inflate returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd, srclength
65536, avail_in 630, avail_out 65536
<3>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0xd7a1
<3>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 35e2988, size 5d76

Some hardware stats : Compaq Proliant 1600, 2x 500Mhz, 1Gb Memory, Smart Array 
3200 Raid Controler, 1 floppy drive, 1 DVD IDE drive.

Tried Fedora 7 installs ok only mouse is not working, Fedora 3 installs ok 
mouse works, will test other versions after download.

Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso - not working when English for language is used Keyboard 
choice crash, Dutch language partitioning is reached.

F-7-i386-DVD.iso - during install no mouse.

FC3-i386-disc1.iso - floppy does not mount during install.

Also met this on a Tyan motherboard with Intel 5000 chipset.

F8 i386 & x86_64 both fail.

F9 i386 pre-release does work.

dmidecode being attached here for reference.

Created attachment 304393 [details]
dmi decode from TYAN-Tempest-i5000VS-S5372-LC/LH

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These errors are often caused by HW issues:
# bad memory modules (solution: use memtest86+ to check your memory)
# a bad dvd drive (solution: if possible, try using a different cd/dvd drive)
# bad data cable (solution: change it for a new one)
# bad media (solution: try burning the iso image to a new disc)
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