From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) Description of problem: Tried to install 7.1 on old Packard Bell Legend P75 several times with various problems. This time the installer gave me a file to report to you. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to install 7.1 on my computer. 2. In this case, try to install workstation version with some extra packages selected. 3. I've tried many install configurations without success. Sometimes I get a msg that /boot/vmlinuz.... can't be found, even tho it's well within 1024 cyl. Additional info:
Created attachment 18210 [details] Provided by 7.1 installer when it failed
Does the installer probe your monitor correctly? If not, what does it think it is?
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bfox: Sorry I didn't answer this sooner. I overlooked the one line question that showed up in the 3rd copy of my bug report and thought it was simply the 3rd copy sent by a berzerk bug robot. It's been a couple weeks since my failed 7.1 install attempts, but I do remember that the installer didn't correctly detect either my video card or the monitor. I remember because I had to use the text mode installer, since the video was pretty garbled with the GUI version. I suspect the card was the item not detected properly, because it's and old one built in to my old Packard Bell P75. Jim
If you can boot into the text mode installer, try pressing <Alt><F2> and run the 'ddcprobe' command. What does the output say? This should try to probe your video card and monitor. Also, you might try using the GUI install by booting with 'linux lowres nofb'. Does that help?