Here we go again. FC3 panics when booting the first disk

[nick G]

Let's take a raincheck on the MD5 because checking the actual CD is not 
possible under windows, and under linux it's not letting me mount the CD 
drive.  The last thing I hear before everything gets caught up in a Panic 
and speakup dies is running /sbin/loader.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Here we go again. FC3 panics when booting the first disk


OK. So we know FC has installed on this box before? Is that correct?

Let's review the basics:

1.) You ran md5sum check. Did you check both the original iso image
and the media you created from those images?

If you don't get to the language and keyboard selection screens, what
error, precisely, are you getting? It sounds like Speakup is starting
and you have output. If that is correct, where exactly do things go
wrong. What is the last thing you hear, and



nick G writes:
> I do have a functioning FC2 which makes this even crazier.  Yes, I do have 
> a
> version of parted, so if I had to do it this way i could.  To me however, 
> it
> isn't Ideal, but at this point I will install by any means necessary.
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Here we go again. FC3 panics when booting the first disk
>
>
> nick G writes:
> > I don't think FC2 comes with fdisk or anything,
>
> Wrong. It most certainly does, and if you didn't install fdisk, and more
> to the point parted, you still could--but read on.
>
> >otherwise I could probably
> > do something.  That's what I mean I'm forced to do it this way.  I do 
> > not
> > get the language or keyboard sellection screans because it panics before 
> > I
> > do.  Everything just dies.
>
> But, you do have a working FC2 on this box? Excuse me for asking this
> more than once, but I want to be very certain I understand you
> correctly. If you do have a functioning FC2, I have some follow up
> questions that might be helpful in debugging.
>
> If you do not get the language and keyboard screens, the install from
> hard drive option may not be available either.
>
> So, let's take this one step at a time.
>
> PS: On general principle you should have /home, and possibly /usr/local
> as separate partitions on an existing LInux install. Those would be
> excellent locations for the iso images in preparation for a hard drive
> based installation, as you would likely not want to lose all your user
> data from /home, for example. The HOWTO recommends such a strategy--but
> this is aside from your more immediate problem.
>
>
> Janina
>
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