[sllug-members]: Fedora Core install problems

[Jarom Hatch]

On 11/11/2006 07:47 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> I am having a hard time figuring this out, I am trying to install fedora
> core 6 on my computer and it keeps freezing when it begins searching for
> existing installations, right after choosing my keyboard layout, and it
> is a total system freeze so I can't hop to another terminal and get
> output, I have tried the DVD and a CD, I have searched the net fo
> solutions and tried to boot with noprobe and nobmraid, but to no avail.
> I have 2 80 gig sata hard drives, my motherboard is an Asus A7V600 with
> the via VT 600 chipset and a via-sata controller for the drives, I have
> previously installed just about every distro on this box, and I know it
> to be in good working order.  I have also been posting on fedora forums
> without any luck.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks!

I passed this off to my friend who works at Redhat and this is what he said:

> Hm... Smells oddly like a bug I thought we'd squashed, where if the
> user has a reiser-formatted partition, the installer choked... I'd
> suggest he get a serial console on the box, if at all possible. And
> rather than going to the "fedora forums", since there is no such
> official entity and thus I haven't a clue who would be hanging out
> there that really knows their stuff, I'd maybe point him at #fedora
> on irc.freenode.net instead. But yeah, I'd first check to see what's
> on those disks the installer is trying to scan.
>
> Oh! That just triggered a though... Could also be dmraid causing
> problems, so another thing to try would be to launch the installer
> w/"linux nodmraid". I've seen dmraid do some really stupid things
> here and there...

Hope that helps.

Jarom
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