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Description of problem: Fedora Core 4 installer DVD (x86_64) reboots system immediately after/during reading initrd.img. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora Core 4 (x86_64) from DVD install disk Motherboard: Asus Pundit-AE3, Chipset: North Bridge SIS 760GX, South Bridge SIS 965L CPU: AMD Sempron 64Bit 2800 64Bit Socket 754 CPU 333 FSB Memory: 512Mb DDR 400MHz PC3200 Hard Drive: 40Gb IDE (not-SATA) How reproducible: I have tried various install parameters suggested in the install menu, and various BIOS settings (i.e. disabling SATA support), always with same result.
Is this better with FC5?
I'm downloading the ISOs now, and will try FC5 tonight. I was hoping not to use FC5 just yet, as I'm not really up to sorting out bleeding-edge issues that no-one else has encountered and documented, but if needs must..
Update: Tried the 'mediacheck; linux mediacheck' workaround in <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026">bug 159026</a> and got all the way through the installation setup. However, when it came to actually do the installation, it complained that an existing partition that I had told it to format was in use (?!) and shutdown for reboot. Then, every time I retried, it just frozed at the point of executing /sbin/loader. Now I'm trying FC5!
FC5 works fine.