[Leaplist] Re: LUNA: Small F7 install problem ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

>
> .... I am trying to get Fedora 7 (x86_64, newly burned last night) to 
> install on a newly upgraded box, using a Gigabyte P965-DS3 mbd, Intel 
> Q6600 CPU, 4 X 2 GB Patriot DDR2-800 RAM (8 GB total), 2 X Seagate 80 
> GB 7200.10 HDD's in RAID-0 using onboard GSATAII controller. I booted 
> UBCD 4.1.1 & ran memtest86 v3.3 for about 21 hours (7 passes complete, 
> no errors), then ran 1 of the CPU stressers just for grins for about 4 
> hours. Then I launched into the actual install. I initially had 
> problems getting the install-kernel to boot, it kept panicking. I 
> removed 3 of the DIMMs, leaving 1 (2 GB) DIMM installed & the 
> installer kicked off AOK. I completed the install, the RAID0 was 
> correctly identified during install, partitioned, & the install 
> completed quietly up to the point where it says to remove the install 
> media & reboot. I did so, but it won't reboot. POST completes AOK, 
> then .... *nothing*. No flashing from the CDROM or HDD lights, just 
> the end of the PCI devices list (in console mode) & a flashing cursor. 
> I googled a bit, but everything seemed to be geared towards WINXP, so 
> no obvious clues. There was 1 thread on FedoraForums alluding to the 
> above problem w/ too much RAM for the install kernel (& w/ no good 
> solution ....), but nothing matched my problem. Any 
> clues/help/suggestions ? TIA ....
>

Soooooooooooo tacky to self-reply, but here goes:

It appears that FC7 (right off the DVD) is fubared WRT *any* RAID 
configurations. All was well w/ FC5 & FC6, but something apparently 
crept into FC7, then survived whatever testing might have detected it. I 
lost the RAID0 & went back to 2 HDD's, /dev/sda as boot/root, /dev/sdb 
as /var & all is well. There are various bugs posted to bugzilla, all of 
which were failing part-way through the boot, w/ *some* messages from 
the boot process for clues. Mine was apparently never even getting that 
far. No matter, all is well now.

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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