Description of problem: I made a minimal CD to start an install from hard drive. It doesn't work. The boot menu asks me to install or troubleshoot. Hitting enter for install results in lots of text scrolling off the screen followed by catatonia. The first time, the last line was incomplete. The next time I used linux ks=http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/anaconda-ks.cfg The last line before catatonia included something like "end of dump". The CD is not bad. It's an exact copy of the iso from which it was made. I read it back and did a diff to make sure. The iso's sha256sum is a4a7cc83163a2cecf1420c64d48123d0887e165aa17a72b8920f8d70bf003a65 . More recently I used tab and backspaced over quiet. Since I didn't have a running system, I had to copy the result by hand: [1.429346] ---cut here--- kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:531! invalid opcode 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: Pid 1: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-7.f16.i686 #1 Daktech**DT6000* /D865GBF EIP: 0060:[<c0811b4e>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 1 EIP is at do_nmi+0x22/0x280 EAX: ec498000 EBX: 9ed363a7 ECX: 00000000 EDX: ec499b0c ESI: ec499b38 EDI: c0a5c746 EBP: ec499b30 ESP: ec499b0c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, t:=0c490000 task=ec49000 task.ti=ec498?00) Stack: 00000000 00000002 00000001 ffff0005 ec499bc8 9ed3c63a7 ?f8ce356 c0a5c746 ecbcb8c0 c08117bc 9ed363a7 00000000 ff8ce356 ?0a5c746 ecbcb8c0 000054b2 c05c00b7 0000007b 000000e0 000054b2 ?05c9745 call trace The stars represent little circles. The ?s are because of wraparound and my 79.3 character wide screen. They should probably be the same as the hex digits following them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I believe they are the most recent as of March 30, 2012. The minimal CD's sha256sum is a4a7cc83163a2cecf1420c64d48123d0887e165aa17a72b8920f8d70bf003a65 The DVD sha256sum is af7f172962ab47748914edb7c4d30565d23b4cf21f3bc4b7e3cd770b384d9a75 . How reproducible: unavoidable Steps to Reproduce: 1. CD into drive 2. reboot 3. hit enter Actual results: A lot of text followed by catatonia. Expected results: anaconda dialogs Additional info: Trying to do without media doesn't work either. I've seen the kernel command segfault.
looks like the kernel, then. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
D865GBF is one of the motherboards that was broken due to an ACPICA change. It was fixed in an updated kernel, but the F16 media cannot be updated. See bugs 73007 727865. Can you please try the nightly F17 live images, or the upcoming F17 beta?
I should take back the bit about the kernel command segfaulting. It only happens when I do this: grub < stanza.txt Apparently that is not supposed to work. As noted, I can boot the F15 installer, but not that way.