Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 177872
Installer Hangs Loading Anaconda
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:20 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Video Card S3 Trio64V+, was causing my problem, when I changed the video card, Fedora installed correctly. Once I had Fedora installed I put this video card back in the PC and it froze again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to install Fedora Core 4 2.System hung every time attempting to load Anaconda 3.Replace with substitute PCI Video card Actual Results: I could install Fedora Core 4 with this video card. Expected Results: It should have loaded Anaconda and allowed my to proceed with the install Additional info:
Unfortunately, what's burned on the installation CD is permanent, so if the GUI installation fails, that is pretty much a permanent thing for the given OS release. ie: there's no way to fix the installer once the OS is released Having said that, you've indicated that the problem occurs also after the OS starts up after a successful install with a different video card. Using the S3 card that you're having the problem with, please run: "system-config-display --reconfig" manually, and then run "startx" from the commandline to manually test X. If the system locks up, please reboot back into console mode (nongraphical). After this, attach the uncompressed X server log and config file from your installed system to the report as individual attachments using the link below, and we'll try to diagnose from there. Thanks in advance.
Closing bug due to lack of information, and lack of feedback/response. If the issue is still present/relevent, please respond to the above engineering queries and reopen and we will re-review the issue. Setting status to "CANTFIX" (lack of response)