Cannot install Fedora Core 4

[Russell Golden]

verifications:
1. i have not been able to get the installer to work in the first place. 
I still have RHL9 on my only hard disk, hda. uses the GRUB boot loader. 
First CD goes into panic whenever i try to boot off of it to install 
FC4. (I don't know where you got the idea that i have a SCSI disk...)
2. see #1
3. see #2
It's really confusing troubleshooting by email lol.

Rick Stevens wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 16:13 -0600, Russell Golden wrote:
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>>no, i already have RHL9 and i'm TRYING to install FC4 on it, either 
>>overwriting RHL9 or upgrading it. If I can ever get the stupid thing to 
>>work, by the time it's done there will only be one version of Linux on 
>>my hard disk.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, so if I understand correctly, you're doing a fresh install of FC4
>over the top of RH9 on your second SCSI hard disk and you want your
>current boot loader (which isn't grub, but likely ntloader or System
>Commander or something) to boot to grub on that fresh install.
>
>If I have that right, I just want you to verify a few things:
>
>1. You've booted the first FC4 CD and actually done the installation,
>overwriting RH9.  When you did the installation, you told anaconda
>(the FC4 install program) that it that it was to put FC4 in the various
>partitions of /dev/sdb, and not /dev/sda (which it will try to do by
>default).
>
>2. Now, when you try to boot the FC4 installation, it gets a kernel
>panic.
>
>3. If you boot off the first FC4 CD and enter "linux rescue" at the
>"boot:" prompt, it still kernel panics.
>
>This is where things get weird.  I've never heard of a kernel panic on
>a rescue boot when the installer itself didn't panic when things were
>installed.  They use the same kernel (the installer and the rescue).
>There's really no way for one to panic and not the other.
>
>What actually occurred, I think, is that you installed FC4 on /dev/sda.
>The reason I say this is that you can still succesfully boot RH9.  Had
>you actually installed FC4 where you think you did (replacing RH9), then
>RH9 has been wiped out it can't boot.  Do you see why I'm confused?
>
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