Install hang on a Dell PowerEdge SC1430

Steve Dickson SteveD at redhat.com
Fri Nov 16 17:46:58 UTC 2007



Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> Michael E Brown wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:49:57AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>>> Are there known issues with F8 (and F7) being
>>> installed on PowerEdges? Booting from DVD (and CDs)
>>> I get the following three lines than nothing...
>>>
>>>     Loading Vmlinuz........
>>>     Loading initrd.img.....
>>>     Read.
>> Yes, there was a known issue with F7, but I *thought* we had gotten this
>> fixed for F8. There is a kernel cmdline workaround for it on F7, might
>> be the same problem for F8. Add "edd=skipmbr" to the boot options.
> That didn't help... thanks though....
Nix this! You said 'edd' NOT 'ebb' grrr... if I could only type...

This indeed fixed this problem so the problem is still in F8.

thanks much!

steved.
 




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