Actually, after the media check installer throws "loader received SIGSEGV!" and quits. I have tried the installer with noapic and acpi=off options to no avail. I had no installation issues with Fedora 7. Here is the smolt link for the laptop. http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show_all?UUID=8abc1e5c-e0d4-4570-b527-0f07aca66cfc Srikanth On Nov 9, 2007 6:12 PM, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am trying to install Fedora 8 (i386) onto a machine which is already > running Fedora 7. The loader crashes after loading initial drivers and > past the "Disk check". I guess it could be due to a driver that is > loaded but not sure. Is there a way to prevent a particular driver from > loading such as pata_amd at the time of installation? > > Thanks > > Srikanth >
