FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader

[Ruben Moretti]

Hi Patrik !

At boot prompt enter some garbage text. The installer will complain to not 
understand the command given (i.e. enter "garbage" literal). Then continue 
pressing just enter.

 If you boot the FC4 CD or DVD installer and see an error something like the 
above text or picture, then your motherboard chipset may be affected by the 
syslinux crash bug. This bug reportedly happens most often on Intel Pentium4 
or Nocona chipsets 845, 865, 875, 915, 925, 945, 955, and very rarely on 
some AMD64 motherboards.

That is a Syslinux Bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026

Sorry, Copy and Paste. I cannot English :)
Ruben



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "patrick" <gibblertron at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader


> I'm having a problem installing FC4 on a machine with an "Integrated
> VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator" graphics adapter.
>
> I start up with "linux text" to enter text-mode installation, the
> kernel starts and I see information about the hardware, and then just
> after /sbin/loader loads, the screen changes video mode into something
> that is all garbled. When the text installer starts, I can make out
> the colours, but cannot read any text as it is shaking and garbled.
> I've also tried booting up with vga=ask passed the kernel, picking a
> standard 80x25 vga mode.
>
> Is there any way to have /sbin/loader NOT switch video modes? If it
> would just stay in the same mode as when the kernel starts up, I'd be
> fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
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