[sllug-members]: Fedora Core install problems

[poly at polystreet.com]

I just installed FC6 on a Dell Inspiron 9300.  I went very smooth.  I
initially did a number of install on it just to test things out.  So,
right before FC6, I had a FreeBDS partition and I had to use the
FreeBSD intall disc to delete because FC6 install DVD won't do that.
Other than that, the rest was "as usual", if not better.

Also, I wanted to upgrade another Dell laptop (that already has FC3) but
it freezes just like in your case.  It's kind of dissapointing because I
am not up to removing all partitions on it and doing a fresh install. 
If you have everything backed up and can afford to loose everything on
you drive, you may use another tool to delete all partitions.  I am not
sure, but that worked in my case.

Thanks,

Poly
http://www.netforall.com/poly

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: Fedora Core install problems
> From: Jarom Hatch <jshatch at azza.com>
> Date: Mon, November 13, 2006 11:07 am
> To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
> 
> 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