From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Upon installation of the first ISO disk of FC4T3 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 Laptop, Anaconda fails to bring up the installation screen, which would allow me to choose my mode of installation. Instead, the only thing I see is a checkerboard screen with funny characters. When I attempt to reinsert the first ISO disk, I will also see a text-based mode of choices. However, I cannot make any choices because the keyboard is frozen and doesn't allow to me to make any entries. I checked the quality of the disks themselves and was able to perform the installation from them on an IBM ThinkPad T-30 Laptop and a Dell Dimension XPS T600r. Incidentally, I am using the Dell Inspiron at this moment by reinstalling FC3 on it, which works fine. The only conclusion that I can make from this is that the Anaconda installer will not install on a Dell Inspiron. This was the case when I burned disks for Fedora Core 4, test 1,2 and now 3. Will this issue be corrected in the final release? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info:
This was a bug in syslinux 3.07 that's resolved in syslinux 3.08 (which will be in FC4 final)