I've just made my 5th unsuccessful full attempt to install F8 on a 2 PATA disk i815 Dell PIII 1133 MHz 512M RAM system that has the following fully functional operating systems: Debian Etch DOS Fedora 6 Fedora 7 Knoppix 4.0.2 Kubuntu 7.10 OpenSUSE 10.0 OpenSUSE 10.2 OpenSUSE Factory OS/2 SUSE 9.3 WinXP Xandros 3 On each successive attempt I've added more of the "Overriding Automatic Hardware Detection" options from docs.fedoraproject.org, the last time using about 80% of them. On the first aborted attempts, I was trying to include the various IP assignments as on "Manually Configuring the Network Settings", but each time it wanted manual entry of the IP, using the cmdline parameters only for mask, gateway & dns, then aborted immediately upon completing network configuration. I gave that up and tried with nothing on cmdline. That got me all the way through package selection, but then anaconda aborted as soon as told it to proceed to install the selected packages. >From then I used as a minimum acpi=off and noapic, and got anaconda to claim its first successfully completed installation. It couldn't be booted though. First I had to boot it from F7's grub, since the only locations it had permitted me to choose from were nowhere and on the mbr. Since MBR is not an acceptable location for any additional Linux installation, I was forced to choose nowhere. That boot attempt produced the following: ... Waiting for driver initialization Loading ata_generic.ko module noresume passed, not resuming... creating root device That's where it simply stopped. I got it to boot using the F7 kernel, whereupon I found no eth0 and corrupted rpm DB. modprobe e100 got me network. After finding 97% of the install log's entries were rpm errors, rpm --rebuilddb got yum usable for installing the crucial mc rpm missing from available packages to select from. Next I did yum update. From then on, I couldn't complete a boot with either of the F8 kernels nor the F7 kernel. So I went on to try from scratch again, twice, getting similar results both times. More cmdline options made it even worse. Two more times yet again anaconda claimed complete, even though it didn't bother installing any kernel! Right now on tty2 after 5th full try I'm looking at the output of ls -l /mnt/sysimage/boot, and see only: drwxr-xr-x 2 root 0 1024 Sep 20 20:21 grub Right now, cat /proc/cmdline: noapic acpi=off skipddc nodmraid nofirewire noparport nopcmcia nousb vga=788 Target is Maxtor 20G PATA secondary master 4.8G partition 11 out of 13 total shared by DOS, OS/2, SuSE 9.3, OpenSUSE 10 & Knoppix. Seagate PATA primary master has 120G with >16 partitions. Primary slave is ZIP100. On attempt 4, I tried to install mc and a kernel: mount -t ext3 /dev/sdc11 /mnt mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys cd mnt chroot /mnt That resulted in too many errors to remember, but it seems package management is unavailable in chroot. I'm starting install each time with grub on hda5, specifying mirrors.kernel.org /fedora/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os as source. Logs from an early attempt: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-ks-f8-gx150.cfg http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-f8-gx150.log http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-f8-gx150.syslog http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/anaconda-f8-gx150.xlog ATM, I'm running a text install using noapic acpi=off, but am not hopeful of materially different results. Without making hardware changes, I'm at a loss what else to try. Ideas? -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
