Bug 465476

Summary: Fedora 10 Beta does not install on VMware server
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gabriel <igboie>
Component: syslinuxAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: bulls_i3, dcantrell, igboie, pjones, tim.liim
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Description Gabriel 2008-10-03 14:36:38 UTC
Description of problem:
I am trying to install Fedora 10 Beta release on my VMWare Server and I get only the following line:

ISOLINUX 3.61 2008-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin

Nothing else. I cannot really install it. I am running Fedora 9, CentOS 5, Slackware on the same VMWare server without problems.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 10 Beta

How reproducible:
Always for me. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download VMWare 2 
2. Create new guest.
3. Try to install Fedora 10 Beta.
  
Actual results:
Halting after the first line:
ISOLINUX 3.61 2008-02-03 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin

Expected results:
Should keep on going with the installation.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:31:01 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Khaled 2009-04-10 19:20:23 UTC
Having the same exact problem. Also running Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 9 on same Vmware2 Server. I'm NOT using Fedora 10 beta, using the mainstream Fedora 10 distribution. Also tried re-downloading the iso. Same problem.

I have tried telling Vmware that it's a "Other 2.6 32 bit Linux" and "Red Hat 5 32-bit" and a few others. Always the same result.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2009-04-28 19:46:09 UTC
Is Fedora 11 any better in this respect?

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 07:50:50 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 10 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 10.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained.  At that time
this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
'version' of '10'.

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to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 10's end of life.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:29:41 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.