On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 18:23 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 17:39 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > > > > > > >>Tried all of those options, but it made no difference. When I go > >>to vty3 or vty4, doing shft-page-up doesn't work... so I can't scroll > >>through all of the output. Sigh. > >> > >>I'll try "noprobe" next. > >> > >>Sure would help if I could tell if the missing driver was for the > >>graphics card or the disk controller or... whatever. > >> > >> > >---- > >and evidently no reports of a kernel panic > > > >just out of curiousity - did you run the mediacheck on that boot disk? > > > >Craig > > > > > > > > The failure happens before it gets that far, unfortunately. > > It asks me for the keyboard type and language, then the installation > method... then tells me I'm missing a driver... > > All of that happens before the mediacheck is done. I've booted with > "linux mediacheck" and it made no difference. > > I'm booting from DVD on the FC3.i386 disk... > > Too bad there's no way to enable additional debugging output. > > Not a very handy message. ---- sounds like a bad cd or a bad drive - possibly just incompatible you can compute the md5sum of the disk in other ways - like from Windows or Linux. How/where did you get the disk? if you burned the cd in Windows you can use this URL to help figure if the CD is good... <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php? action=viewarticle&artid=436> linux, you can just type -c md5sum /dev/hdc #substitute for a different device If you burn on one device and try to install on another, sometimes burning at a slower speed helps and of course, there's always a possibility that the drive/box/fedora are not working together and the following might be appropriate... did you try this (from fedorafaq)? Q: The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad! A: There is a bug in the kernel which causes the media check to say all CDs are bad, on some systems. To do a successful media check, do the following: 1. At the installer prompt, type: linux mediacheck nocddma 2. Run the media check on your CDs/DVD. 3. Reboot, and run the installer normally.
