From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: When installing FC4 over NFS (in text mode) on a Dell Precision Workstation 450, the installer hung while it said "Installing bootloader" (I had chosen GRUB as the booloader). Switching to the console showed no activity on top, and it seemed that the grub command in the output of "ps -efw" was just sitting there (the command-line was "grub --batch --no-floppy --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map"). Killing the process allowed the installation to complete, but when rebooting the machine there was no OS installed. I booted to the rescue mode on the CD, mounted the partitions, "chroot /mnt/sysimage", and then ran "/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda", at which point grub completed successfully, and I was able to reboot to the hard drive. One other point: the hard drive I was installing to was a blank, right from the factory (i.e. it had never had any partitions on it before). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.2.1.5-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert FC4 disc1 into Dell Precision Workstation 450. 2. Choose text mode install 3. Choose NFS install 4. Install minimal Actual Results: At the "Installing bootloader" step, the installer hangs Expected Results: The grub installer should successfully complete. Additional info: Hardware: Dell Precision Workstation 450 MPT Fusion SCSI Seagate ST373454LW hard drive
Hi, I am also facing the same kind of problem while installing Fedora Core 4 on my machine. Here the first problem I mentioned is something different one but there is workaround to pass problem#1. Problem#2 is describing the "Installing Bootloader" related issue. 1 Probem: When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. *** RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) *** After this messages it prints out some exception trace. If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "/" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). 2 Problem: a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for / and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these partitions through partition magic. b# I selected boot loader to be installaed on /dev/hda4 (Linux partition) and kept default starting os as windows partition. c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glass mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w/o showing Fedora Grab loader window. e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on the /dev/hda4 linux partition as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resole the problem and I found the same result. What could be the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora installed on my machine without formatting existing windows partitions. The System Details: MB : Intel D865GVHZ CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "/" and swap partitions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB Comp: Hynix
Any update on this? -Mandar
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.
hy guys! I am also facing a similar problem. I am trying to install fedora 18 and the installer freezes when bootloader is to be installed. The progress bar shows no reaction, other things work fine apart from response from the installer. Installation freezes in installing the boot loader stage. During installation of the software no problem is found whatsoever. My laptop config is : lenovo g460 360gb hard disk 2gb RAM core i3 processor 1st generation. h20 BIOS.