Install hang on a Dell PowerEdge SC1430

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 20:50:45 UTC 2007


On 11/16/2007 09:00 AM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Are there known issues with F8 (and F7) being
> installed on PowerEdges? Booting from DVD (and CDs)
> I get the following three lines than nothing...
> 
>     Loading Vmlinuz........
>     Loading initrd.img.....
>     Read.
> 
> This happens with both x86 and x86_64 installs 
> from DVD of either F8 or F7. I also tried burning
> the boot.iso from the DVD to a CD and boot from
> that with the same results.
> 
> Being this is pretty broken, I'm hoping this is a known
> problem and there is some type of workaround.
> 

edd=skipmbr ??

If that fixes it, visit https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379411
and add your report.

(This bug was supposedly fixed before release but still seems to be
present, just a lot less common than before.)




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