Description of problem: When starting a text based installation, everything goes well until the screen, which says in the middle: "Searching for Fedora Core installations...". At that point the machine completely freezes. The progress bar is at 0%, and the following text is written two times on the screen: "Pralloc = 0, Reserved = 2, blocksize = 1, root block at 70003238" The machine does not respond to keyboard any more, only the hw reset button helps. How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: Start a text based installation on Pegasos PPC. Actual results: Complete freezing. Expected results: Working text based installation. Additional info: There aren't any previous Fedora installations on the machine. Here is the output of parted: ppc101ftp:~ # parted /dev/hda print Pralloc = 0, Reserved = 2, blocksize = 1, root block at 70003238 Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 40GB Disk label type: amiga Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 8225kB 1078MB 1069MB ext2 genesi 2 1078MB 2147MB 1069MB linux-swap swap 3 2147MB 12GB 9656MB reiserfs susetest 4 12GB 21GB 9656MB ext3 suse100 5 21GB 31GB 9656MB ext3 gentoo 6 31GB 32GB 551MB asfs dh0 boot 7 32GB 40GB 8349MB affs1 dh1 Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. ppc101ftp:~ # parted /dev/hdb print Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0kB - 80GB Disk label type: amiga Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 516kB 1025MB 1024MB linux-swap swap 2 1025MB 20GB 19GB reiserfs susedata 3 20GB 30GB 10GB ext3 gentoodata 4 30GB 40GB 10000MB reiserfs sles 5 40GB 50GB 10000MB reiserfs suse101 6 50GB 60GB 10000MB ext3 ubuntua 7 60GB 70GB 10000MB ext3 edubuntu Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
The kernel seems to be oopsing when unmounting reiserfs which is almost certainly the root cause here
Do we support reiserfs during installation? Or ever?
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