FC6 test2 hangs at "Looking for fedora core installations"

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:39 -0400, John Yurcik wrote:
> My hardware is a homebuilt sempron 2800,  512MB ram  GeForce FX
> 5500gpu. I have several linux distros installed successfully and have
> had previous fedora installs (FC3 thru FC5).
> I'm using the dvd test2 release which I burned and did a media test
> on-it Passed media test. I've tried the nousb, noprobe, and text
> installer options, but the installer hangs after the "Looking for
> Fedora core installations" annoucement. At that point the screen goes
> black and the system just displays the cursor with the spining
> grahics. No other activity is detectable i.e. no hard drive light and
> no cdrom activity.
> 
> Opening consoles F1-F3 gives:
> "Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer please wait ...
> Probing for video card:  nVidia  Corporation NV#$ [GeForce FX 5500] 
> Attempting to start native X server
> Waiting for X server to start ... log located in /tmp/ramfs/Xorg
> 1...2...3...4...5... X server started succesfully.
> Starting graphical installation ...
> install exited abnormally [1/1] 
> 
> One of the consoles gives me a shell (sh.-3.1)

This has come up before. It is a kernel issue, it is Oopsing trying
to unmount a reiserfs partition, I think.