From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: A friend tried to install Fedora Core 2 and found that installation froze whilke displaying "Loading usb-storage". He sent me the output of lsusb (from another distribution) and I found he had an USB Zip reader. I told him to poweroff the reader and this time it worked. Perhaps it is because the reader had no Zip in it. It is still a bug: people should be able to ibstall Fedora even if they have usb-storage peripherals who use removable media. This bug didn't show in FC1 or other distros with 2.4 kernels. Since it looks like it is causing problems perhaps <b>installation</b> kernels should have acpi and apci disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Power on USB Zip reader (from Iomega) 2. Try to install FC2 3. Actual Results: Installation froze when trying to load usb-storage module Expected Results: Working installation Additional info: With 2.4 kernels this machine had problems handling USB keys unless it had acpi disabled.
did FC3 behave any better ?
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.