Fedora Boot failure

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Nov 7 20:36:15 UTC 2003


Jeroen van Tilburg wrote:
> I am trying to install Fedora core 1 (with GRUB) on the following pc :
> 
> Asus P4B with latest bios upgrade, 256 Mb ram, Maxtor 80 Gb harddisk, Intel
> PIV 1.5 Ghz.
> Installation works fine, but at the end of the process after the graphical
> screen disappears,
> a lot of these text messages show up : rpm, fatal region error, run recovery

You might try checking the consoles at various points during the 
install.  If you press Ctrl+Alt+F1, for instance, you'll switch to 
console 1.  Debugging information is printed to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th 
consoles, IIRC.  The GUI should be back on the 6th or 7th.  See if you 
can track down at what point during the install those errors are first 
printed.

You might also want to format your partitions and check for back blocks 
during the process.  It'll take a while, but it'll be worth the time to 
spot a potential problem.






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