Description of problem: Install fails if previous version of Fedora is detetected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):FC3 updating to FC4 How reproducible: Run Install again Steps to Reproduce: 1. Current Fedora Core 3 system 2. Boot from FC4 CD 1. 3. Happens during previous version checking. Actual results: Critical error occurs. Expected results: Previous version found, updating ... Additional info:
Created attachment 115754 [details] Anaconda Dump File
CDs all passed SHA1SUM and disk check successfully.
You appear to be having hardware problems. From your anaconda dump file: <4>hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=20032845, high=1, low=3255629, sector=20032845 <4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
The drive is up and running as an FC3 system.
When you run dmesg after booting into your FC3 system, are you seeing the same sorts of error messages as I found in your anacdump.txt file?
dmesg shows now errors: Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: ST320011A, ATA DISK drive hdb: Maxtor 6E010L0, ATA DISK drive Using cfq io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: LTN486S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide2... ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide3... ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide4... ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide5... ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe ! hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes not supported hda: hda1 hdb: max request size: 1024KiB hdb: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 20044080 sectors (10262 MB) native capacity is 60058656 sectors (30750 MB) hdb: 20044080 sectors (10262 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes supported hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, DMA ... EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev hdb1, type ext3), uses xattr SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts FYI: dual boot system: hda: Windows hdb: GRUB Boot Loader / FC3
This does look like faulty hardware. Following is a list of things you could check for http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HardwareProblems