Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134987
anaconda hangs after install files are found
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Description of problem: I'm attempting to install Fedora Core 3 Test 2 on my machine, but the installer always hangs shortly after the installation files are found. I've tried doing hard drive installs (from iso images), ftp and http installs, all with the same result: I'm left with a mostly blank screen (all blue, with some help text on the bottom), and no error messages. If I try to install from the iso images, right after I tell the installer where to find them, there's a bit of hard drive activity, then it just suddenly stops. I've tried leaving it there for several minutes, but nothing happens. When I attempt to install over the internet, the installer hangs right after it downloads the "stage2.img" file. It may be worth noting that since I don't have a CD burner, I have to install using a grub floppy disk (since Fedora doesn't contain a boot floppy image like it used to). I copied the contents of the "isolinux" directory from CD1 to my Windows partition. When I reboot with the grub boot disk, I enter these commands at the prompt: root (hd0,0) kernel=/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 boot I've also tried: initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img text ramdisk_size=8192 with the same result, and I also tried removing the ramdisk_size argument, again with the same result. Using this method to install Fedora on my PC worked fine with FC2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start the installer 2.choose install method 3.watch as installer hangs Actual Results: Installer hangs with no error messages given. Expected Results: Installer should continue on with FC installation. Additional info: My PC's specs: Athlon 700Mhz Jabil Kadoka Motherboard (from Gateway) with IronGate chipset 320 MB RAM 20 GB primary hard drive 10 GB secondary hard drive SoundBlaster Audigy PCI Geforce 4 MX 440 AGP 2 VooDoo 2 PCI videocards in SLI mode Hauppauge WinTV-GO TV tuner PCI
Does booting with 'linux text' help?
Well, like I mentioned above, I tried using the commands: kernel=/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img text ramdisk_size=8192 which, based on what I read in "isolinux.cfg" in the "isolinux" directory, should be the command equivalent to "linux text." I have to do this from a grub prompt since there are no images on the CD's for a floppy disk install. Anyway, starting it with the "text" argument didn't help any.
Does adding 'nofb' help?
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