Description of problem: The Fedora 8 install DVD hangs while booting on my x86_64 desktop machine. I had the same problem with Fedora 7; I figured I'd just leave it running Fedora Core 6 and hope the problem went away. But the Fedora Core 6 installer worked fine (although from CDs), as did the Fedora Core 5 test 3 installer. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from install DVD. 2. Chose "Install or upgrade an existing system (text)" Actual results: I see "Loading vmlinuz ...", "Loading initrd.img ...", and "Ready." on successive lines (with lots of "..." omitted), and then the machine hangs (caps lock and num lock don't change the keyboard's lights). Expected results: Installer boots. Additional info: At the suggestion of mharris64 on IRC, I tried booting with "nohz=off nolapic" and with "nohz=off nolapic acpi=off" added to the kernel options. That didn't make a difference.
Created attachment 256401 [details] /proc/cpuinfo for machine
Try the workarounds: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems
Using "edd=off" or "edd=skipmbr" makes the installer boot.
Is this a Dell system?
Yes.
Installing F8 on a Dell PowerEdge SC1430 I ran into this same problem. 'edd=skipmbr' fixed the problem.
Hello, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Are you able to test with either the latest release from the Fedora unity project or Fedora 9 Alpha? http://spins.fedoraunity.org/spins http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged.
We have no reported problems with EDD any more.