FC installer and VIA Epia mobos

[Per Bjornsson]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:06, Florin Andrei wrote:
> What's up with the FC2 installer? It crashes when attempting install on
> a VIA Epia M6000 mobo, right at the beginning, after hitting enter at
> the first prompt. The bootloader starts loading up the kernel, but then
> something (the kernel? something else?) just bombs out. I don't even get
> to see any kernel message, it's just "sudden death" (spontaneous
> reboot).

I seem to recall this having been discussed when FC2 was released, and
that there was a kernel problem with some VIA processors that was fixed
later on. Arjan made a boot ISO image with a later kernel that might get
you going:
http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/c3boot-2.iso

> FC3test1 seems to be working fine though, so that's why i don't think
> i'll file a bug report.

Makes sense if it is actually this problem...
/Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University