I don't think this is just you.  When trying to install F8 on an HP laptop (in text mode)

loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace:
[0x804a030]
[0x110420]
[0x81a3f42]
[0x805b750]
[0x805c153]
[0x804b207]
[0x8175004]
0x8048151]

Installing  in graphical mode yields the following error messages:
*** glibc detected *** /sbin/loader: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0850c810
=== Backgrace: ===
[0x81a4083]
[0x805b750]
[0x805c153]
[0x804b207]
[0x8175004]
[0x8048151]
======= Memory map =======
00110000-00111000 r-xp 001110000 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
0849b000-08589000 rw-p 0849b000 00:00 0
b7f36000-b7f39000 rw-p b7f36000 00:00 0
bfedb000-bfef0000 rw-p bffea000 00:00 0
loader received a SIGABRT!  Backtrace:
[0x804a030]
[0x110420]
[0x81e7f80]
[0x8182a30]
[0x819930b]
[0x81a4003]
[0x805b750]
[0x805c153]
[0x804b207]
[0x8175004]
[0x8048151]
install exited abnormally [1/1]

This exact same problem happens when installing from known good media on both USB DVD drives and the local dvd drive. 
I am using the Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso.  Memtest has been run on this system and there are no memory errors.

This doesn't seem to be isolated.  <http://www.nabble.com/F8-Installation-Issue---Second-Try-tf4806216.html#a13750126 >


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