From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: I am running the text install because the graphic installer goes to a white screen and hangs (another bug already reported). I can go through the process, partition, select packages, and begin the installation. One time it hung with a screen full of errors - it might have been asking for CD #2 but I couldn't see it if it was. Another time it hit a loop and was running non-stop. Both times I saw errors about permission denied as part of what was on the screen. In both cases I had to turn the PC off to get out of the crash. I am left with a PC which will try to boot but cannot - it hangs eventually. Not sure how to capture a dump or screen shot since it hangs. Can I boot from the CD and recover the previous install log somehow? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1.Got different results the two times I tried the install. 2. 3. Actual Results: See Description. Expected Results: A wonderful happy installation of FC4! Additional info: Compaq Presario Desktop 7100 series. AMD chip. Video detected as Trident CyberBlade (generic). Previously had FC3 which installed without issue. Was partitioned as Software RAID (two disks) with LVM but I blew away the partitions to see if that would help but it did not. Thanks god this is a test machine - no data lost!
Did you verify your media?
Yes, two or three times - all four CDs. They all passed with no issues. Verified from within the installer itself.
Am wondering if the problem is that I am using LVM and trying to do a text install. I thought that I had blown away my LVM partitions but had not. When I actually DID blow them away the text install worked. When I had tried to edit the LVM partitions it mentioned that you could not with the text install so I am wondering if the text install will not work with LVM at all actually.
Does booting with 'linux ide=nodma' help?
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