F8 Installation Issue - Second Try

[Srikanth Konjarla]

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
>