--- Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:24:38AM -0800, Ivan > Kronkvist wrote: > > > > I bought a new PC (Dell Dimension w/ Pentium D) > and > > installed Fedora 6 on it. All went fine and after > the > > install the system was rebooted and I was able to > log > > on. I then did shutdown and when I tried to boot > up > > the next day, the bootup process hung after > enabling > > disk quotas. I searched the archive and found a > > similar post that suggested that the graphics > wasn't > > working. I rebooted with linux rescue, changed the > > runlevel to 3 in inittab, and now I saw a stack > trace > > and a Segmentation Fault for the line in > rc.sysinit > > that does a rm -rf on a bunch of things in /tmp. > > > > I have tried to reinstall, but my original DVD > didn't > > work, the install got hung while resolving > > dependencies of the packets I want to install. I > have > > downloaded Fedora 6 another 4 times and burned new > > DVDs, but the installation process complains on > each > > of them that the DVD image is broken when I test > the > > DVD before starting to install. (the original DVD > > passed before my initial install, but since has > the > > same problem when I test it.) If I try to install > from > > any of these DVDs, the install still hangs when > > resolving packages. > > Several thoughts here. You should grab the sha1sums > for the DVD ISO, > and use that to verify the image. If it is OK, you > don't need to pull > it in again. E.g: > > [root@charlesc fc6]# sha1sum -c SHA1SUM > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-rescuecd.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-rescuecd.iso: FAILED open or read > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-disc1.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-disc1.iso: FAILED open or read > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-disc2.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-disc2.iso: FAILED open or read > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-disc3.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-disc3.iso: FAILED open or read > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-disc4.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-disc4.iso: FAILED open or read > FC-6-i386-DVD.iso: OK > sha1sum: FC-6-i386-disc5.iso: No such file or > directory > FC-6-i386-disc5.iso: FAILED open or read > sha1sum: WARNING: 6 of 7 listed files could not be > read > > (Note that the one in which you are interested was > successful.) > > There have been problems with the media verification > code in Anaconda, > and I don't know if they have all been fixed. I > would verify on the > writing machine by first mounting the new DVD and > the ISO image, and > comparing. E.g.: > > [root@charlesc fc6]# mkdir foo > [root@charlesc fc6]# mount -o loop FC-6-i386-DVD.iso > foo > [root@charlesc fc6]# mount /dev/scd0 > /media/cdrecorder/ > [root@charlesc fc6]# diff -r foo/ /media/cdrecorder/ > > If that succeeds, you should be good to go. Of > course if you are > burning on one drive and reading from another, there > could be a > compatibility problem. I solve this by putting a DVD > burner in a USB > clam shell and installing from it. > Yes, the first DVD was ok initially, but when I put it back in to reinstall, the test failed. I burned all my DVDs on a Windows XP using the utilities for writing an ISO image. I can't see why this program would succeed once and then fail four times. > > > > I don't know if there is a hardware problem. It > seems > > hard to imagine since it is a brand new PC and > before > > I even started install linux, I booted up with the > > Windows XP that it came with and everything > appeared > > to be fine. However, trying to reinstall Windows > XP > > from the DVD I got in the purchase also fails. It > > somehow hangs while booting from the DVD giving me > a > > blank screen. > > Not encouraging. Is the computer still under > warranty and can you take > it in to the store? Yes, it is. I am contemplating calling Dell and talk to them. > Have you run memtest86 on it? It's on the DVD and > you can run it by > entering "memtest" at the initial prompt. I will try this. > > I would also run badblocks on the hard drive (boot > to a live CD Linux > like finnix for the purpose). Can I do this in rescue mode? I don't have a live CD Linux. Can I download one? > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon > Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for > open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF > in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word > docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C > FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Thanks, Ivan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
