From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: Installer seems to hang at the media test screen. The keyboard is dead; ie caps lock / num lock lights wont toggle. So the system may not be hung, it's just that the keyboard is dead. I decided to try to find out when this happens by repeatedly pressing caps lock after hitting enter at the boot prompt. This turned out to be the fix. Now I was able to install without any further problems with the keyboard. I re-tried this several times with the same result: On this system I have to keep hitting num lock / caps lock until the system comes up to the media test screen. Didn't try other keys. I did try another keyboard with the same result. The system consists of: MSI Kt3 Ultra2 Motherboard AMD Duron 1600+ CPU 512M DDR 400 Ram (1 DIMM) Maxtor 91728D8 hard drive RIVA TNT2 Video card Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 9.91-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Assemble system with above listed componets 2.Attempt installation of fedora core test2 from CD 3. Actual Results: Can't get past media test screen Expected Results: Normal installation Additional info:
fixed in fc3?
I still have the motherboard but its not in use or in a case. I also have FC3. In a week or so I will assemble this MB into a system and test with FC3. Will report back then.
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