Fedora 8 install failure

Hello,

I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq 8710p
laptop.
The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new install,
come to the 
blue screen that
loads some drivers and end up at the disk check requester.
After the 
check is done (or skipped),
/sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and shuts
down the system.

I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.3.
They install 
and works flawlessly.
However, I'm a Fedora guy 

Any suggestions?
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Some system facts:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700  2.40GHz
4 GB RAM
ST9120823AS hard disc
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
Intel WiFi Link 4965AG

Additional info

The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just fine.
Can't make a
clean (swedish) install with this though.

/andha

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Anders Hartman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq
8710p laptop.
> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new
install, come to the 
> blue screen that
> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check
requester. After the 
> check is done (or skipped),
> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and
shuts down the system.
> 
> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE
10.3. They install 
> and works flawlessly.
> However, I'm a Fedora guy 
> 
> Any suggestions?

Hi Anders,

Could you try a Re-Spin from Fedora Unity? They have been
built using a 
newer kernel and could therefore resolve the problem. I'm
not sure that 
it actually does, but it may.

The Re-Spins are available on http://spins.fedor
aunity.org/spins using 
Jigdo or Torrent.

-- 
Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

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Anders Hartman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq
8710p laptop.
> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new
install, come to the 
> blue screen that
> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check
requester. After the 
> check is done (or skipped),
> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and
shuts down the system.
> 
> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE
10.3. They install 
> and works flawlessly.
> However, I'm a Fedora guy 
> 
> Any suggestions?
>
------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------- 
> 
> Some system facts:
> 
> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700  2.40GHz
> 4 GB RAM
> ST9120823AS hard disc
> NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
> Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
> Intel WiFi Link 4965AG
> 
> Additional info
> 
> The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just
fine. Can't make a
> clean (swedish) install with this though.

I had some nasty problems, quite similar to this, using the
F8 x86_64 graphical 
installer on a few boxes with Nvidia cards.  The text
installer worked fine 
though, and the problem went away when I made a respin with
revisor that used 
newer packages.  Try the Fedora Unity respin.

	-- Chris

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Chris Snook skrev:
> Anders Hartman wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP
Compaq 8710p laptop.
>> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new
install, come to 
>> the blue screen that
>> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check
requester. After the 
>> check is done (or skipped),
>> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and
shuts down the 
>> system.
>>
>> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and
OpenSUSE 10.3. They 
>> install and works flawlessly.
>> However, I'm a Fedora guy 
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------- 
>>
>> Some system facts:
>>
>> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700  2.40GHz
>> 4 GB RAM
>> ST9120823AS hard disc
>> NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
>> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
>> Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
>> Intel WiFi Link 4965AG
>>
>> Additional info
>>
>> The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just
fine. Can't make a
>> clean (swedish) install with this though.
>
> I had some nasty problems, quite similar to this, using
the F8 x86_64 
> graphical installer on a few boxes with Nvidia cards. 
The text 
> installer worked fine though, and the problem went away
when I made a 
> respin with revisor that used newer packages.  Try the
Fedora Unity 
> respin.
>
>     -- Chris
>
>
Hello Chris,

I have now tried the following with Fedora 8 Unity 20080204
respin:

Install with graphical UI.
Install with text UI.
Install with text UI using kernel modifiers (noprobe,
headless, noapic, 
acpi=off) one at the time.
Use boot.img from the DVD to do a text install over the
network.

I'm getting a stack dump all the time.

The kernel seems to be alive though. Alt-F2,Alt-F3 and
Alt-F4 still 
works. I can't see any trace of
what went wrong in anacron.log or syslog.

Booting up in rescue mode from the DVD also works.

I wonder what's missing in Fedora that OpenSUSE and Ubunto
has.

More things to try?

Digging deeper and deeper
/Anders

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Jeroen van Meeuwen skrev:
> Anders Hartman wrote:
>> I have now tried the following with Fedora 8 Unity
20080204 respin:
>>
>> Install with graphical UI.
>> Install with text UI.
>> Install with text UI using kernel modifiers
(noprobe, headless, 
>> noapic, acpi=off) one at the time.
>> Use boot.img from the DVD to do a text install over
the network.
>>
>> I'm getting a stack dump all the time.
>>
>
> At what point do you get the stack trace?
>
>> The kernel seems to be alive though. Alt-F2,Alt-F3
and Alt-F4 still 
>> works. I can't see any trace of
>> what went wrong in anacron.log or syslog.
>>
>
> Does dmesg show anything?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
>
>
I get the stack dump a few seconds after the disk check
requester goes away.
I can't find any traces of a dmesg-file, only anaconda.log
and syslog, 
both located
in the /tmp directory. The anaconda log ends after SElinux
has loaded a 
default policy.
anaconda ignores some unknown devices like finger print
sensor and 
(interstingly)
the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card. Since I run in
text mode this 
should
be allright.

Syslog shows no errors except for a missing floppy drive
(don't have one).

/Anders

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Anders Hartman skrev:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install Fedora 8 x86_64 on my HP Compaq
8710p laptop.
> The DVD boots fine, I tell the install to do a new
install, come to 
> the blue screen that
> loads some drivers and end up at the disk check
requester. After the 
> check is done (or skipped),
> /sbin/loader blows me away with a SIGSEGV error and
shuts down the 
> system.
>
> I have also tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE
10.3. They 
> install and works flawlessly.
> However, I'm a Fedora guy 
>
> Any suggestions?
>
------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------- 
>
> Some system facts:
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7700  2.40GHz
> 4 GB RAM
> ST9120823AS hard disc
> NVIDIA Quadro NVS 320M graphics card
> TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-L632M
> Intel 82566MM Gigabit LAN
> Intel WiFi Link 4965AG
>
> Additional info
>
> The Fedora 8 KDE LIVE CD/DVD seems to boot up just
fine. Can't make a
> clean (swedish) install with this though.
>
> /andha
>
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The solution to this problem was to add kernel option
'nopcmcia' when 
booting up.
Now I have a working FC8 system with a defunct PCMCIA
subsystem. Moving on
to find out what FC8 has against my PCMCIA hardware.

/Anders

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