Hi Patrik !
At boot prompt enter some garbage text. The installer will complain to not
understand the command given (i.e. enter "garbage" literal). Then continue
pressing just enter.
If you boot the FC4 CD or DVD installer and see an error something like the
above text or picture, then your motherboard chipset may be affected by the
syslinux crash bug. This bug reportedly happens most often on Intel Pentium4
or Nocona chipsets 845, 865, 875, 915, 925, 945, 955, and very rarely on
some AMD64 motherboards.
That is a Syslinux Bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026
Sorry, Copy and Paste. I cannot English :)
Ruben
----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick" <gibblertron@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader
I'm having a problem installing FC4 on a machine with an "Integrated
VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator" graphics adapter.
I start up with "linux text" to enter text-mode installation, the
kernel starts and I see information about the hardware, and then just
after /sbin/loader loads, the screen changes video mode into something
that is all garbled. When the text installer starts, I can make out
the colours, but cannot read any text as it is shaking and garbled.
I've also tried booting up with vga=ask passed the kernel, picking a
standard 80x25 vga mode.
Is there any way to have /sbin/loader NOT switch video modes? If it
would just stay in the same mode as when the kernel starts up, I'd be
fine.
Thanks,
Patrick
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