Since I wasn't able to get F9 Preview or Beta installed, I d/l F9 Preview Live CD and booted it. It almost did not boot. I was getting all kinds of weird block device errors and a lot of trouble reading the cd with errors on /dev/sr0 like (and I verified the media - it was good):
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0462 end_request, I/O error, dev sr0, sector 33840 Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary Red Hat Nash version 6.0.47 starting Setting up new root fs no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults unmounting old /dev unmounting old [bunch of icon chars like hearts and things] unmounting old /sys Welcome to Fedora
Once it finally did boot I went in and sent a smolt profile of my machine. It is here: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_a85342c8-29ef-4208-a216-161ee87bcb2f
With all the weird errors I've seen I think that F9 is having some difficulty with the SATA/IDE controllers/drives. This machine has three SATA controllers: Gigabyte 2 int 2 ext AMD660 4 int HighPoint 2300 4 int
Gerry