Re: Problems installing Fedora test 2?

[Sean Earp <smearp mac com>]

On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Sean Earp wrote:

> Hello all-
>
> I have been beating my head against this problem over the weekend, and 
> am no further than when I started.  Red Hat 9 and Severn (Fedora) beta 
> 1 installed for me with ABSOLUTELY no problem at all.  I downloaded 
> the new Fedora test 2, and run into the following problem:
>
> The install goes completely fine until it loads the last package (I 
> have tried different package configurations, finally trying the 
> default package selections for personal desktop).  After it finishes 
> with CD 2 (or 3) depending on the packages selected, the screen goes 
> half blue, with the following text:
>
> Running anaconda, the Fedora Core system installer - please wait...
> Probing for video card: NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS (generic)
> Probing for monitor type; SyncMaster
> Probing for mouse type: Generic - 3 BUTTON Mouse (USB)
> Attempting to start native x Server
> Waiting for X server to start... log located in /tmp/X.log
> 1...2...3...4...5.... X server started successfully.
>
> The KB lights are blinking in an apparent random pattern over and 
> over.  If I then manually restart the computer, the computer boots up 
> to a grub command line (not the GUI login I specified during 
> installation)

A couple further clarifications:

1) The problem occurs in an upgrade from Red Hat 9, as well as with a 
clean install
2) The above messages occur at the BEGINNING of the installation when 
anaconda starts, and then show up again at the END of the installation 
(where the problem occurs).  I do not get the impression that anaconda 
is probing my video card etc at the end of the installation, but that 
the progress message is not cleared from the beginning of the 
installation.

-Sean