Re: F8 install failure again & again

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On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/12/15 16:25 (GMT-0700) Craig White apparently typed:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 17:47 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> > with hardware that's been around that long, you shouldn't have to add
> > any of those kernel parameters to get install but you might consider
> > only installing @base (maybe @editors) and keeping it simple because you
> > can then boot, do a 'yum groupinstall @whatever' afterwards
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried yet again, cmdline text vga=788, then
> deselected everything except admin tools, hardware support, network servers.
> Still, boot halts with this tail:
> 
> Loading ata_generic.ko module
> Noresume passed, not resuming...
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem.
> 
> Unless it blew by before I could see it, I'm puzzled why I'm seeing a message
> about ata_generic.ko, but not ata_piix.ko, since this is Intel ICH2. Booting
> F7 /var/log/messages has ata_piix but no ata_generic. I tried to loop mount
> the initrd as tmpfs to see if piix was in it, but the howto I found
> http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm doesn't work. :-(
> 
> On rescue boot and chroot, lsmod shows ata_piix, and not ata_generic, so it
> seems there's some problem getting a good initrd from the installer. Under
> chroot I did 'mkinitrd --preload=ata_piix /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8x.img
> 2.6.23.1-42.fc8'
> but using that boot hangs after a bunch of USB messages that followed the
> enumeration of sdc partitions and the CD-ROM. :-(
> 
> Unless someone has better ideas, maybe after I recuperate some from most of
> over 30 hours of only this I'll pull the HD off ICH2, stick it on ICH4, and
> see if an install goes more like normal, but I really don't like opening
> boxes for stuff like this. :-p
----
you have seen this ?
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn-Changes-in-Anaconda

and of course this...
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn-scsi-partition-limit

right?

Craig


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