FC6 test2 hangs at "Looking for fedora core installations"

[John Yurcik]

Thanks for the response I did search the archieves but obviously didn't come
upon a relevent thread. Is there a easy way around this? I do have reiserfs
on my drives.

On 8/30/06, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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