F8 Installation Issue - Second Try
Srikanth Konjarla
srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com
Mon Nov 19 17:21:43 UTC 2007
As the installer was to no avail, i have taken the upgrade path. The
following document was helpful.
http://www.howtoforge.net/upgrading-fedora7-desktop-to-fedora8
The upgrade was successful.
Srikanth
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.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Srikanth
>
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