F11 Beta, no go on three different installs!

[Tom Diehl]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, psmith wrote:

> i have in the last few days been pulling my hair out trying to get an F11 
> beta install to work, first i started with the i686 xfce live spin for my 
> acer aspire one, downloaded it from the fedora torrent link, used the win32 
> version of live-usb creator to copy it to usb and when i try to install it 
> just seems to freeze after loading the kernel and initrd, when editing the 
> boot line and removing the rhgb and quiet options i can see the initial 
> hardware detection get to the point of the usb devices then it just freezes 
> after giving the details of the last usb device, a synaptics touchpad
>
> then i decided to write this iso to disc and try installing it on my desktop 
> machine (GF8800, athX2,4GB ram, 500GB raid0) and it does exactly the same 
> thing, freezes after detecting the usb devices, the last one is a logitech mx 
> revo mouse
>
> lastly i downloaded the x86-64 install dvd, burned it to disc and tried to 
> install it to my desktop machine, this goes a little better as it actually 
> makes it to anaconda, but when the propmt comes up telling me that it's beta 
> software etc and i click install anyway it sends the kill sinal to everything 
> and then tells me it's safe to reboot my machine! i noticed just after i hit 
> the carriage return key to start the install from the grub page i can see 
> lots of acpi errors flashing by but they are moving too fast to make out.

You might want to look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491527
and see if that is the same issue you are seeing.

So far no one has taken an interest in it but I added more info to it this
AM in hopes that someone will tell me what I can do to get the kernel to
actually boot.

Regards,

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