Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 120062
Fedora installation fails after upgrade bootloader stage
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:39 EST
Description of problem: Installing Fedora (Internet download, burnt to disc, some problems with the discs? Checksums ok and burnt properly with k3b) upgrading from Red Hat 9. Installation stops upgrading the bootloader, saying that a detailed bug report should be filed against anaconda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Cannot load Fedora Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Fedora installation cd1 2. Boot 3. Follow through until bootloader stage Actual results: As above and will not continue Expected results: Continued installation Additional info:
Created attachment 99119 [details] Generated by Fedora installation
Have re-burnt cd1 and now at the same point (update boot loader stage) get "You are trying to install on a machine which isn't supported by this release of Fedora Core". Tried proceeding as fresh install and got the bug report again. Machine: 2GHz Celeron, PC3200 RAM, 40GB Maxtor HDD, Lite-On DVD +RW LDW-401S Disc: yarrow-i386-disc1.iso (iso9660 image thereof, by Kb3))
These errors <4>hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 <4>hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 point to a problem with your CD media. Please verify it using 'linux mediacheck' and reopen if it passes and you have further problems.
Using the media check at the start of the installation does indeed give a 'fail' result. The point is that I have copied the downloaded iso to CD and then back onto hard-drive and still found the checksums OK. This suggests to me (that the hardware is probably OK and) that either there is something wrong with the software creating the iso9660 image or that there is something in the original download at fault. k3b insists the cd was created successfully, although cdroast which I tried first (not finding the facility on Gnome toaster) did not - hence my swap to k3b. As I state in my first additional comment, it is now (after re-burning the disc) telling me I'm trying to install on an unsupported machine!
No, it says that you should probably try with different media or burning at a slower speed. Drive/media incompatibilities with the amount of data (and the access pattern) that we stream it off tend to get tickled more than just copying back and forth. And after the upgrade fails once, your system is left in an inconsistent state so it is correct that an upgrade will be of something that's unsupporrted.