FC7 on my lappy, F8 dvd in drive, fresh powerup
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Dec 1 00:09:00 UTC 2007
On Friday 30 November 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>Gene Heskett writes:
>> On Thursday 29 November 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>On Thursday 29 November 2007, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>>>Gene Heskett writes:
>>>>> HP-dv5120us, amd turion 64 bit cpu, gig of ram, 100 GB drive.
>>>>> It gets to the bit about skipping the media test (it already passed
>>>>> that several times previously on this dvd)
>>>>>
>>>>> then I get a blue screen with the prompts across the bottom, and a
>>>>>
>>>>> "Welcome to Fedora for 386"
>>>>>
>>>>> across the top, and it sits there. And it does this regardless of the
>>>>> mode I choose to do the install/upgrade.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whats Next?
>>>>
>>>>Well, try booting with "nohz=off noapic". That worked for me on one
>>>> cranky laptop.
>>>
>>>Must have been the magic twanger,, it ran anaconda and now says
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>off. Looks like the starter pistol must have fired, I'll be back if any
>>> more gotcha's show up.
>>
>> I guess they did, it has been stuck, with the HD led on, but no dvd
>> activity, at 99% in the dependency check since about 7 hours ago. The
>> machine is relatively cool, so its not working very hard. No response to
>> the tab, alt+tab, space, or F12 keys.
>>
>> What is next folks?
>
>The 99% halt in dependency check is, I believe, a known bug if you have some
>packages installed from non-Fedora repositories (Livna, FreshRPMS, etc…)
>whose dependencies cannot be groked by anaconda; although your ALT-Fx should
>still work, though.
In other words, the anaconda got trapped on the bottom too long and drowned.
Serves it right.
>Take an inventory of all the stuff that you have installed from non-Fedora
>sources, and nuke them via rpm -e. You can reinstall them later, after the
>ugprade.
I had only 4 packages all related to mplayer to nuke and the yum update is
still at work. On package 512's dl ATM.
Thanks, it might come in handy when I do this box.
--
Cheers, Gene
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