While attempting a GUI installation of Fedora 5 from a DVD(2.6 series of the Linux Kernel), the screen displayed something like you would see as snow, like watching gamma radiation as seen from a televison set tuned to no particular channel, however the pixels are fixed and with color and other horizontal lines of garbage. The garbage screen occurs just into the installation. I tried various options; safe mode resulted in the same outcome. The install went to completion in text mode but after GRUB boot prompt the system dropped to a command line [localhost login]. Only a password was asked for at the beginning. I am running a new system, new hardware; SATA drive, 800FSB, 1GB RAM, mother board is d945gnt messages include: ext2-fs: unable to read superblock isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev-md1, iso_blknum=16, block=32 kernel panic-not syncing: VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,1) [<c011978e>] panic+03x3e/0x16c ...... ...... ...... [<0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+x5/0x6 Other messages that appear at reboot; error: cups config daemon No volume control elements and/or devices found and Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00:0 Some of the same conditions persisted when I later installed an older verion of FC4. Both DVD media test okay and have been used installing on other machines. Any ideas and suggestions are of course greatly appreciated- David C dcooke at efn dot org
