From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 Description of problem: Fedora 9 Beta, Fedora 8, Fedora 8 respin (Mar 31/08) do not recognize the DVD drive that was used to launch the install process. It asks: "What type of media contains the packages to be installed?" When I pick "Local CD/DVD" it says "Disc Not Found". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 11.4.0.55 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with Fedora 9 Beta 2. Install or upgrade system 3. English, us keyboard layout 4. Stops at "Installation Method" 5. Select "Local CD/DVD" Actual Results: Disc Not Found Expected Results: Should have recognized CD/DVD. Additional info: Alt-F3 says: "trying to mount CD device /dev/sr0 on /mnt/source" Alt-F4 says: <6>udevd[1431] general protection ip:b80c056e sp:bffd25b0 error:c380<6>udevd[1432] general protection ip:b80c056e sp:bffd25b0 error:c380 in udevd[b80bc000+19000] <4> in udevd[b80bc000+19000] <6>udevd[1433] general protection ip:b80c056e sp:bffd3640 error:c380 in udevd[b80bc000+19000] <6>udevd[1435] general protection ip:b80c056e sp:bffd3640 error:c380 in udevd[b80bc000+19000] System - Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Core2Quad Q6600/ 2G DDR2/ 500GB SATA HDD/ PATA IDE DVD-/+RW/ 8500 GT Geforce 512MB video --------- Also of note, I setup an NFS share to install over the network. It gets past this and goes to the GUI installer, but then does not find my hard drive(s). I've tried putting in a SATA drive and an IDE drive even though the bios sees them at boot. I have a JMicron JMB363 PATA and SATA controller. I tried IDE, AHCI, RAID to no avail. I also tried these kernel options, in various combinations: all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf acpi=off libata.dma=0 ide=nodma noacpi noapic nolapic On a side note, I sometimes get a kernel bug even before it asks for the language. See attached screenshots.
Created attachment 302201 [details] Kernel Bug at mm/rmap.c 664
kernel bug assigned to udev??
Created attachment 302965 [details] dmesg dump of udevd general protection problems This happens for a normal boot to rescue mode. Thought I would add a text attachment for easier searching. This does not include the kernel bug like the screenshots include.
Created attachment 302968 [details] Here is what happens in F9 Preview...
This looks like some kind of hardware problem: random errors all over the place.
Has this system been stable when running an earlier release?
Unfortunately, no. It is a brand new system put together by a local shop. They have been good in the past, but I fear you are correct as I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu and others and they all exhibit the same erratic behaviour when trying to install the OS. I'm going to try installing Vista. I'll report back on success or failure. Thanks.
Closing as NOTABUG.