[K12OSN] Found 4.2 booting prob reason

[Robert Arkiletian]

You may have already dicovered this yourself Eric but I found this link 
describing the media check problem in detail. I found it from a review 
of Fedora Core 3 here 
(http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/30/1559210)

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Commonly encountered gotchas and their workarounds

    * An unfortunate issue with the kernel used by the installation 
program (see Alan Cox's explanation)

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/thread.html
(search threads "the media check problem" and "media check message")

causes the mediacheck function to condemn CDs that are actually good. 
Workaround: at the install CD's boot: prompt, enter linux ide=nodma 
before proceeding.
    * Some graphics chips (primarily nVidia and Intel) don't work with 
the new X.org drivers without tweaking. This can lead to a catch-22 
where you can't log in to fix the problem until you've logged in and 
fixed the problem. Workaround: At the GRUB screen, follow the on-screen 
instructions to edit the kernel options line. Remove rhgb quiet to get a 
non-graphical boot, and add a 3 to the end of the line to boot into 
runlevel 3. Then, after you've searched through the fedora-list archives 
for the solution for your particular chipset, you can fix your config files.
    * CD-ROMs and diskettes are now mounted in /media instead of /mnt. 
Lots of scripts and users will have to be reconfigured.
    * SSH has stricter security settings; among other things, remote X11 
forwarding is no longer on by default.
    * For people who need to compile kernel modules for certain <cough> 
nVidia </cough> graphics cards, the method for installing kernel sources 
has changed. Be sure you read the release notes.

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Robert Arkiletian
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