Install message "no driver found"

[Philip Prindeville]

Craig White wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 18:23 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Craig White wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 17:39 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>>>Tried all of those options, but it made no difference.  When I go
>>>>to vty3 or vty4, doing shft-page-up doesn't work... so I can't scroll
>>>>through all of the output.  Sigh.
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>>>>I'll try "noprobe" next.
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>>>>Sure would help if I could tell if the missing driver was for the
>>>>graphics card or the disk controller or... whatever.
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>>>and evidently no reports of a kernel panic
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>>>just out of curiousity - did you run the mediacheck on that boot disk?
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>>>Craig
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>>The failure happens before it gets that far, unfortunately.
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>>It asks me for the keyboard type and language, then the installation
>>method... then tells me I'm missing a driver...
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>>All of that happens before the mediacheck is done.  I've booted with
>>"linux mediacheck" and it made no difference.
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>>I'm booting from DVD on the FC3.i386 disk...
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>>Too bad there's no way to enable additional debugging output.
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>>Not a very handy message.
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>sounds like a bad cd or a bad drive - possibly just incompatible
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>you can compute the md5sum of the disk in other ways - like from Windows
>or Linux. How/where did you get the disk?
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I downloaded the .iso image from a mirror, and then burned it using
the default Gnome application for .iso files (cdroast?)...


>if you burned the cd in Windows you can use this URL to help figure if
>the CD is good...
><http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?
>action=viewarticle&artid=436>
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>linux, you can just type -c md5sum /dev/hdc #substitute for a different
>device
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I'm unclear on this...  One of them crapped out because it couldn't
read parts of the disk, so it seemed like it was a bad burn...  And then
I burned an FC4-i386.iso image onto a disk (which used a SHA1SUM,
and not an MD5 digest) and tried to generate a sum for that as:

[root at media dvbtune-0.5]# sha1sum -b < /dev/hdc
0c5a18caa900eb770ff29b1da16b075e1fd8f4a4 *-
[root at media dvbtune-0.5]#

but that was different from:

Hash: SHA1

2f151a7329846da685c2a72fcb40eba3e8a355a0  FC4-i386-DVD.iso
aa82f4be0be901777537b6ad0906c4f3c2d84bc3  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso
e43a0db88bf537f6dab6e49513c6391a4aa9b549  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso
37c0a3dacf0e803e402474ecca6a16bf177490b4  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso
72fd68d72a2c7563b74073c25dccb903a2a34a01  FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso
3fb2924c8fb8098dbc8260f69824e9c437d28c68  FC4-i386-disc1.iso
31fdc2d7a1f1709aa02c9ea5854015645bd69504  FC4-i386-disc2.iso
032455cdf457179916be3a739ca16add75b768b7  FC4-i386-disc3.iso
f560f26a32820143e8286afb188f7c36d905a735  FC4-i386-disc4.iso
736e1555e88740d6131c5c84fbe69ed1073ba82d  FC4-i386-rescuecd.iso



so I'm wondering if the image on the DVD needs to be checksummed
differently somehow?



>If you burn on one device and try to install on another, sometimes
>burning at a slower speed helps and of course, there's always a
>possibility that the drive/box/fedora are not working together and the
>following might be appropriate...
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I'll try reburning the FC3-i386.iso DVD at 1x instead...


>did you try this (from fedorafaq)?
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>Q: The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad! 
>A: There is a bug in the kernel which causes the media check to say all
>CDs are bad, on some systems. To do a successful media check, do the
>following: 
>     1. At the installer prompt, type: 
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>        linux mediacheck nocddma
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It never gets that far!  It craps out before then.  I run the command,
but it seems like certain options are being ignored like "mediacheck"
and "nofloppy".

-Philip

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>     2. Run the media check on your CDs/DVD.
>     3. Reboot, and run the installer normally.
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