From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: When I try to boot the computer from the FC2 disk 1, the install program tries to load initrd.img. During or after the attempt to load the img my computer reboots. This machine has a Syntax MB w/ Via c3 @ 800mhz and onboard video. There is one hard disk and two CD's. FC1 is installed and runs nicely. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot machine from CD 2.At the anaconda prompt hit return, type linux text and return, or linux checkmedia and return. 3. Actual Results: System reboots Expected Results: Installer comes up and starts the install script. Additional info:
This also happens on my machine, with a P4 3.2G and an ATI-Radeon based graphics card. The same DVD on a PIII with a Matrox G400 card boots fine
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