F8 Installation Issue - Second Try

[Srikanth Konjarla]

I have tried memtest that is part of the fedora8 installation DVD and it 
  passed but the installer still crashes. Just for the sake of testing, 
i have booted through Fedora 7 install Disk and installer goes through 
successfully so it makes me believe that there is an issue with Fedora8 
installer. Not sure if anybody else on this list have seen this before.

Any further thoughts?

Thanks

Srikanth

alan wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to install Fedora 8 (i386) onto a machine which is already
>> running Fedora 7. The loader crashes after loading initial drivers and
>> past the "Media check". Actually, after the media check installer 
>> throws "loader received SIGSEGV!" and quits. I have tried the 
>> installer with noapic and acpi=off options to no avail. I had no 
>> installation issues with Fedora 7. Here is the smolt link for the laptop.
>>
>> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show_all?UUID=8abc1e5c-e0d4-4570-b527-0f07aca66cfc 
>>
>>
>> I have also tried booting with Fedora Live CD and Rescue CD but i get 
>> loader crashes.
> 
> I had a similar problem with F7 last night.  It was bad ram.
> 
> Get a copy of Memtest86 and test your ram.  http://www/memtest86.com/ 
> (Its free.)
>