Hi KAS and List I have now managed to install FC2 I tried 6 more times, finally re-partitioning the hard disk and having sda1 /boot 100MB sda2 / 75GB sda3 swap 3GB Did a full install ie ticking every box but NOT the Everything box about 4.2GB not 6.7GB No boot loader installed on sda The POST INSTALL did not fall over but I am sure this is because for some reason it no longer has to open /dev/null. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The /dev directory is still corrupt !!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel sure there is still a problem with accessing over the end of /dev/ram0 during install, it is just that some (most) install sequences don't need to use the address space that has been corrupted. Cheers John A On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, K. Spearel wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 17:15, Dr J Austin wrote: > > Hi KAS, > > Many thanks for your detailed suggestion > > I have checked out the reference you suggested and was > > convinced you had found the problem - however ..... > > > > Changed the memory clock in the BIOS from 200 MHz to 100MHz > > and did two conplete installs it fell over in exactly > > the same place as before both times!!!! > > FC2 i386 and FC2T3 still run OK !!!! > > > > I haven't tried installing on a system without having at least 1 /boot > partition and have pretty much ignored SATA, especially on those > mini-RAID controllers...the installed i386 and x86_64 kernels have > identical filenames so trying to install into a single /boot is > problematic. Perhaps the bad mojo is coming from the combination of > x86_64, no /boot, SATA and the sata_sil driver. IIRC, the last FC2T3 > kernel was the same a the original FC2 kernel so that can't be the > problem...perhaps sata_sil does differ though. > > KAS > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Dr John Austin, Principal Lecturer, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Portsmouth, Anglesea Road, Portsmouth, Hants P01 3DJ Tel: 02392 842541 Fax: 02392 842792 email ja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
