I ran into the same problem on an HP Pavilion dv8000 but was able to get through the install by booting with nopcmcia added to the kernel cmd line rather than the below. Hope it helps. Pat O'Neil -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=218215&topic_id=47032&forum=10#forumpost218215 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame Pat.ONeil@xxxxxxxxxx