Description of problem: Installation of the Fedora 8 OS on a HP nc6000 (German) laptop fails early in the process. Similar to bug 386451, except this is i386 and potential recommendations do not help. Marked as urgent as there is no workarounds present to install the Operating System. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 8 How reproducible: 100% reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert DVD, wait for boot 2. Choose install method (normal or text, doesn't matter) 3. Skip or test media, doesn't matter Actual results: Crash, see description Expected results: Installation should continue. Additional info: Start Fedora 8 DVD install on a Compaq HP nc6000 (German). Media check is fine. When installing, get the error: *** glibc detected *** /sbin/loader: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0a29d140 ======= Backtrace: ========= [0x81a4083] [0x805b750] [0x805c153] [0x804b207] [0x8175004] [0x8048151] ======= Memory map: ======= 00110000-00111000 r-xp 00110000 00:00 0 [vdso] 08048000-0828e000 r-xp 00000000 00:01 36 /sbin/loader 0828e000-08299000 rw-p 00245000 00:01 36 /sbin/loader 08299000-082d3000 rw-p 08299000 00:00 0 0a24c000-0a319000 rw-p 0a24c000 00:00 0 b7f85000-b7f88000 rw-p b7f85000 00:00 0 bff38000-bff4d000 rw-p bffea000 00:00 0 [stack] loader received SIGABORT! Backtrace: [0x804a030] [0x110420] [0x81e7f80] [0x8182a30] [0x819930b] [0x81a4083] [0x805b750] [0x805c153] [0x804b207] [0x8175004] [0x8048151] install exited abnormally [1/1] sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystesm... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /sys done /tmp/ramfs done /mnt/source done /selinux done you may safely reboot your system When passing options to grub for the installation "nohz=off nolapic" this doesn't help. Neither does passing "SATA=compatible" on boot helps. It was interesting that on the first boot, the initial error was a glibc double free error. This occurred until I first tried the other options. Since then, it doesn't matter what options are tried, failures occur. The partition table is as follows: /dev/hda1 - Windows (25G) /dev/hda2 - Windows (15G) /dev/hda3 - Swap (2G) /dev/hda4 - Extended /dev/hda5 - /home (8G) /dev/hda6 - OpenSuse 10.2 (12G) /dev/hda7 - OpenSuse 10.3 (12G) /dev/hda8 - Intended for Fedora 8 (12G) /dev/hda9 - Empty (12.1G) Needless to say, OpenSuSE 10.2 and 10.3 have been installed without hitches.
Does booting with nopcmcia help?
I've changed the severity to "medium" as I have found a workaround in the fedora forum and have the software installed. See conversation: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171438 The workaround is to add "acpi=off apm=off pci=noacpi" to the command line when loading the kernel. This problem also appears to affect HP nx6125. It is probably worthwhile to add this information to release notes for Fedora 8.
I have this problem also on the nc6000 but with the workarounds was able to install.
These settings will remain in grub.conf after install but can safely be removed afterward.
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