fc3 T3 spins after "Checking for previous fedora installations"

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Thu Sep 14 20:47:35 UTC 2006


> I don't remember the exact phrasing but the fc3 t3 install hangs after I see the "Checking for previous fedora installations."  In the lower right hand corner of my screen the pointer sits with the blue dots spinning around it.  
> 
> I have mouse control.  I tested the media.  This also occurred w/ fc3 t2.  
> 
> The last thing I installed was some version of SUSE.  It's installed on hda2, and fc5 is installed on hda3.  I wonder if the SUSE install changed something to screw up this install.

Press ctrl-alt-f4.  Does it look like a kernel panic?  We've seen things
like this before where there's kernel troubles when reading the reiserfs
filesystem.

- Chris




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