Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125018
Anaconda not starting after probing graphic card and monitor
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have a Shuttle XPC SB51G system (specs on: http://eu.shuttle.com/sb51g.htm#sb51g)with a 3DBlaster Ti 4400 graphics board (specs on: http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?prodid=1517) on which I've successfully installed and run Fedora Core 1. I've downloaded the Fedora Core 2 distrib (both DVD and CD kit) and tried to install it on this system. I've successfully tested the media and run the install in the following mode: - linux - linux noprobe - linux text The problem occurs when the installation process probes my graphic board and the monitor. It founds the right values for the graphic board and set the monitor to unknown, and then seems to get into a infinite loop, avoiding going further in the installation process. I went to the second terminal (ALT + F2) and try to find any info using the shell, but when trying to perform a simple "ls" command, it takes near than a minute to display the result. The whole system seems to be busy at something. The only solution I have at this moment is press the reset button. Now, something fun occur. After pressing the reset button, I start the installed Fedora Core 1 release I have on disk, and a few seconds after the "loading screen" appears, the system get frozen. It's like the failing FC2 install process let some chips in an incertain state that makes FC1 crash. The solution here is to switch off / switch on the system and restart FC1. I do not hae any idea of how I could provide more information on that problem. As I'm unable to have a working shell during the installation process, I'm unable to retrieve any log file on the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC2 on an SB51G XPC system with a 3DBlaster Ti 4400 graphic card 2. 3. Actual Results: The system is frozen displaying Graphics card probing: Nvidia Monitor probing: Unknown monitor Expected Results: Graphical installation process should start to continue the FC2 installation process Additional info:
Can you see what processes are running (run ps from tty2) at that point? What type of mouse are you using?
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