Not sure if this is the correct component, but there is no DVD option. Description of problem: The DVD installer hangs at the ready message, regardless of the three different install/rescue options choosen. The boot menu appears fine, however I am left with the following; Loading vmlinuz...... Loading initrd.img............ Ready. I was attempting to try this release out in regards to the new libata stuff which I know does not work under ubuntu feisty on this machine. I've managed to boot and do a media check of my dvd on another machine and verified that the media is ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F-6.92-i386-DVD.iso How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 153295 [details] lspci output
Created attachment 153449 [details] disk errors This attachment contains boot messages using latest rawhide kernel (2.6.20-1.3104). It get stuck in a continuous loop trying to initialise the disk. If the LiveCD/DVD kernel did the same quietly it would explain things. The disk in question is 4+ years old, but is not a problem on the pre-libata kernels.
Can reproduce here on a Intel Core 2 Duo machine. Is there already an OS on the machine? If you copy the vmlinuz / initrd from the DVD onto /boot and add an entry in grub.conf for them, does it boot? I'm still not quite sure if this is a bug in the kernel or in isolinux/syslinux.
This machine had an old version of FC6 which I've just performed a yum update on as I could not get the test3 livecd or dvd to work. It also has ubuntu fiesty (running an edgy kernel for similar reasons). I tried the FC7 test3 files and the kernel stacktraced almost immediately. I can type up the visible part of the error if required. However, some of it has scrolled off screen.
Simon, your kernel stack trace is probably a separate issue from this. Robert tried putting booting the same kernel and initrd from the on-disk GRUB instead of the ISO, and the kernel booted. Yes, it messed up after that, but it got past the "Ready." and that's the bug we're talking about here. So this would appear to be a syslinux problem. Reassigning appropriately.
I also got the same error, if I try to boot the Install DVD or Live CD of the FC7 TEST4 version... But... The disks don't have any error, because the disks work great on my laptop. Only on my workstation they don't want to run... In the past I also used Fedora Core 6 and I never had any problem with it. I also don't know what to do now... I put all the hardware I don't need to boot off, but the disks still don't want to run... Do you have any other ideas?!
(In reply to comment #6) > I also got the same error, if I try to boot the Install DVD or Live CD of the > FC7 TEST4 version... But... The disks don't have any error, because the disks > work great on my laptop. Only on my workstation they don't want to run... Yes, it's a problem with the CD/DVD bootloader and the BIOS on those particular machines. What model is your workstation? > Do you have any other ideas?! GRUB seems to boot fine on the machines we've seen this on, so if you've already got Linux running on the machine, you can boot by copying the kernel and initrd from the DVD into /boot and adding an entry in grub.conf for them.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I also got the same error, if I try to boot the Install DVD or Live CD of the > > FC7 TEST4 version... But... The disks don't have any error, because the disks > > work great on my laptop. Only on my workstation they don't want to run... > > Yes, it's a problem with the CD/DVD bootloader and the BIOS on those particular > machines. What model is your workstation? > > > Do you have any other ideas?! > > GRUB seems to boot fine on the machines we've seen this on, so if you've already > got Linux running on the machine, you can boot by copying the kernel and initrd > from the DVD into /boot and adding an entry in grub.conf for them. I had exactly this problem since my first attempt with FC7 Test 3. I took the /boot advice with FC7 Test 4 and it just worked ;) Thank you.
Same problem with FC7 final