Fedora 7 install hung [Was: Re: Fedora 7 CD iso files?]

[Philip Walden]

Philip Walden wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> Philip Walden wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Restarted and this time I got several hours into the install to "5 of
>>>> 864 completed Installing glibc-common - 2.6-3.i386". Same thing, no 
>>>> disk
>>>> activity, the cursor would not track and the spinning wait cursor 
>>>> froze.
>>>>
>>>> At this point I suspect my original FC6 is busted. Any suggestions
>>>> before I start with a complete, from scratch including disk reformat?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Well, is FC-6 "busted" or not?
>>> I mean, will the system re-boot?
>>>
>>> My experience is that if an upgrade fails
>>> the system usually runs OK.
>>>
>>> I had at least 3 failures like this while upgrading an Athlon-64 
>>> machine,
>>> and it seems to run fine.
>>>   
>> You are right, I was able to reboot on the original FC6 install. 
>> Sorry it was late and I just tried it today. I have never had a 
>> install problem before, so I had no idea what the result was going to 
>> be.
>>
>> I guess I am being a gluten for punishment, I tried again. This time 
>> it stuck quickly at the "Checking dependencies" again.
>>
>> I am not installing on a weird system, I think. It's a older i386 HP 
>> OB6000 laptop. I had no problems installing  FC4, and upgrading to 
>> FC5 and FC6 on this system.
>>
>> This is the first time I have had to try the http source install as 
>> this thing's DVD-ROM will not recognize my DVD+R or DVD-R disks. 
>> Could the http sourcing cause this problem? Should I just keep trying 
>> until I get it going? The previous run was about 4-5 hours into the 
>> install when it hung.
> So I tried again. This time I am stuck. I insert the boot disk. When I 
> get to the specify http source screen and press ok, it displays a 
> loading image message and then the screen scrolls over with garbage 
> text (looking like Russian cryllic) and stops. I try again, same 
> thing. I unmount and remount the iso on the http server, and try 
> again. Now I get the Russian text after selecting the Install or 
> upgrade option in the Welcome to Fedora screen, nevermind selecting 
> the language, keyboard and http source.
>
> I try again, this time no Russian, but it hangs on "Running anaconda".
>
> Looks like FC7 just does not like this box. I can't be a hardware 
> failure, as I can use this thing "until the cows come home" with FC6.
One last time, and now it dies loading the image from the http source. 
The paints with a call trace dump and the following text at the end.

"BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 8b397507
  printing eip:
c0406643
*pde = 00000000
Recursive die() failure, output suppressed"