DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:20:19 -0400, you wrote:

>On 08/21/2007 09:31 AM, Pat Kane wrote:
>>  > Those are both syslinux (well, isolinux in this case).
>>  > Can you try adding "earlyprintk=vga" to the kernel command line?
>> 
>> That did not produce any more output, the last message  I see is
>> still "Ready."  BTW, I used yesterday's rawhide boot.iso for the test.
>> 
>> I just took a quick look at the early Linux boot code in
>>     ./arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
>> and I think that the function "decompress_kernel()" should be called very early
>> on, and that  the line:
>>     putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
>> does not appear to be working.
>> 
>> I wonder why I do not see the message "Uncompressing Linux... " ?
>
>Because it fails before that.
>
>Did we confirm that adding:
>
>    edd=skipmbr
>
>to the kernel command line doesn't help?

It didn't work for me when suggested in bugzilla.