On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:39 -0400, John Yurcik wrote:
My hardware is a homebuilt sempron 2800, 512MB ram GeForce FX
5500gpu. I have several linux distros installed successfully and have
had previous fedora installs (FC3 thru FC5).
I'm using the dvd test2 release which I burned and did a media test
on-it Passed media test. I've tried the nousb, noprobe, and text
installer options, but the installer hangs after the "Looking for
Fedora core installations" annoucement. At that point the screen goes
black and the system just displays the cursor with the spining
grahics. No other activity is detectable i.e. no hard drive light and
no cdrom activity.
Opening consoles F1-F3 gives:
"Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer please wait ...
Probing for video card: nVidia Corporation NV#$ [GeForce FX 5500]
Attempting to start native X server
Waiting for X server to start ... log located in /tmp/ramfs/Xorg
1...2...3...4...5... X server started succesfully.
Starting graphical installation ...
install exited abnormally [1/1]
One of the consoles gives me a shell (sh.-3.1)
This has come up before. It is a kernel issue, it is Oopsing trying
to unmount a reiserfs partition, I think.