FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble

[alan]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:

> Thanks Alan
>
> I'll try and try that if I ever get that far, however I'm having even more 
> problems than that.
>
> During the install just after it announces it's searching for previous Fedora 
> installations  X  hangs forever at that point.

Have previous installs worked on this machine?  I have not seen that.  I 
am using a AMD64 3700+ with 1 gig of ram and a nvidia 440go graphics card 
and nforce3 sata chipset.

> I've tried to start in "text" mode and it crashes completely leaving a lot of 
> "giberish" (nice technical term) characters and informs me I need to reboot 
> my computer.

I get the X crash after I have fixed everything andf have gone through the 
"first boot" screen.

If I wiggle the mouse, it then tells me that the x server has died and 
leads me through the steps to rebuild the X config.  That seems to fix the 
rest of the issues.

Linus refered to this sort of problem as a "paper bag bug".  That is a bug 
so bad that when released makes the developer want to wear a paper bag 
over their head so they will not be recognised.

> I haven't had this much trouble since Redhat 5.  This seems more like a test 
> 1 than what is supposed to be in fact a release candidate.

I have not seen one this obnoxious since Slackware 3.0.

>
> I'm running a
>
> ASUS A8N-E
> 2G of RAM
> Athlon 64 3400
> Dual WD Raptor SATA I drives
> NVidia GeForce 6600 GT video card
>
> Installation media is fine and I've tried two different ones (DVD's that is).
>
>> From: alan <alan at clueserver.org>
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>> Subject: Re: FC/6 Test 3 64bit Trouble
>> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, David Burgess wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone gotten the x86_64 Test 3 to install from the DVD on a box with 
>>> SATA drives?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> Here is the trick to get it to work.
>> 
>> Install as normal.  (If you already have an install you can skip this step. 
>> ]:> )
>> 
>> Boot off the same disc in "rescue mode".  ("linux rescue")
>> 
>> At the prompt:
>> 
>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>> cd /boot
>> mkinitrd -v --image-version --nocompress initrd 2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>> 
>> Edit /etc/grub.conf and add the following line:
>>
>>        initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>> 
>> Save, sync the drive and reboot.  With luck (and if you did it right), it 
>> should work.
>> 
>> I had a problem with X as well, but reconfiguring the x server fixed it. 
>> (Just follow the bouncing prompts.)
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
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