On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 00:10 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > On 7/19/05, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Chris Ong wrote: > > Did you try to do a text install? How much memory do you have in your > > computer? Are you using acpi? > > I got further with a text install, but the install still bombed. > > First, the system has 1 GB memory, which I hope is plenty--confirmed > by cat'ing /proc/meminfo. I had ACPI enabled previously, but I disabled > in the BIOS this time around. (This is a desktop, not a laptop). > > During this text install I tried a few different things. First I manually > partitioned everything at the ctrl-alt-2 shell. I deleted all prior partitions, > physical volumes, and volume groups, and then recreated them with > fdisk and lvm commands. > > I only used one of my two drives this time. /boot is sda1 and sda2 > is an LVM PV, which contains the other LVs: /, /var, /home and a > 4 GB swap. sdb was left unused with no partitions defined. > > I also instructed anaconda to set SELinux to warn mode rather than > enforcing this time. > > The text install then proceeded to format, lay down the base image, > and then actually started installing packages. However after about > 50 or so packages the system once again bombed out! Had a machine here do much the same earlier this month. Turned out it had bad memory sticks installed, quickly revealed by memtest. The machine had been running Windows XP without any apparent issues. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
