On Jan 5, 2008 12:15 PM, Martin Marques <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dave Cross escribió: > > > I have a Dell Dimension 5100 which was running F7 very happily for > > some time. I wanted to upgrade it to F8. > > > > I downloaded the DVD ISO and burnt it to a blank disk. > > > > When the system boots from the DVD, I see the boot menu. I select > > either the Install/Upgrade or Install/Upgrade (text) option. I then > > get the "Loading vmlinuz..." and "Loading initrd.img..." messages > > followed by a "Ready." prompt. > > > > At that point the system hangs. The installation doesn't proceed. > > > > Has anyone else seen anything like whilst installing or upgrading F8? > > Any advice on how I can debug this problem? > > Yes, there has been a very long discussion about this in the bugzilla > report 372011. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372011 > Thanks. I'd already found bug 239585 which seems to cover the same thing. Anyway, one of the fixes suggested there (adding "edd=skipmbr" to the boot options seems to have done the trick. Or, at least, it's currently running the media check. > Use the Fedora Unity respin which worked for me. I knew I'd bookmarked the Fedora Unity site for a reason :-) > Anyway, upgrades in Fedora are crappy (something to work on for Fedora 9). I think I might try a full install instead. Cheers, Dave...
