From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: The following installer boot options do not appear to be parsed. linux noprobe (video and hardware still appear to be probed) linux skipddc (video still appears to be probed) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. place fedora core 1 disc 1 in cd drive 2. type boot command listed above 3. watch as the installer probes video and hardware Expected Results: video should not be probed. default svga anaconda x server should have then started instead of specialized x server. Additional info:
Some probing will still occur, but network/scsi modules shouldn't be autoloaded with noprobe.
I tried "linux expert reboot=bios" at the boot:-prompt. A few steps later, the installation process stops, with a blue screen, and some nasty error messages on one of the console screens (alt-f4 I think), repeating over and over again, every few seconds. I can avoid the problem by not using installer boot commands, so just hit enter at the boot:-prompt. I add "reboot=bios" to /etc/grub.conf later.
I tried "linux reboot=bios" too., so without "expert". Some of the naste messages are: <4>hdc: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy } <4>hdc: irq timeout: error=0x80LastFailedSense 0x08 <4>hdc: ATAPI reset complete These messages are repeated every few seconds. Some other messages appear too, but less frequently. And yes, it's alt-F4.
This is basically working as designed.