Thanks for the response I did search the archieves but obviously didn't come upon a relevent thread. Is there a easy way around this? I do have reiserfs on my drives. <div>On 8/30/06, Matthias Clasen <<a href="mailto:mclasen@redhat.com">mclasen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- fedora-test-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list </a> </blockquote></div>