Installation freezes at point for FC6 install - Searching for Fedora Core Installations

Yalusa Jongihlati yjongihlati at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 08:53:10 UTC 2006


I have tested the DVD iso I downloaded. The SHA1SUM and testing it when
booting from the disk show the iso as being a valid Fedora Core 6 DVD.

I have tried to run the install with all of the following options at the
prompt:

<Enter>
linux
linux reiserfs selinux=0
inux reiserfs selinux=0 ide=nodma
linux reiserfs selinux=0 acpi=off
linux reiserfs selinux=0 text
linux selinux=0
linux rescue (you will see below why I did this one)

No matter which of the above options I use, the installer will freeze 10-15
after the "Searching for Fedora Core installations" dialog box appears.

I currently have FC5 (amongst other distros) installed on this system. So I
thought to myself what would happen if I tried to install FC5. I went with:
linux reiserfs selinux=0

At the "Searching for Fedora Core installations" the following error message
pops up:

Error mounting file system on hdd8:
Operation not supported


The same error occurs for sda12 and sda13. Interestingly hdd8, sda12, sda13
and sda14 are part of LVM. What was also of interest is that the error
message did not pop up for sda14. The same happens when I boot of the FC5
DVD and run: linux rescue.

[root:~#] pvscan
  PV /dev/sda14   VG Home    lvm2 [32.88 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/sda13   VG Store   lvm2 [30.00 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/hdd8    VG Store   lvm2 [30.31 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/sda12   VG Games   lvm2 [39.99 GB / 0    free]
  Total: 4 [133.18 GB] / in use: 4 [133.18 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]


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*For completeness sake I will also include the output of fdisk l

[root:~#] fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        9963    80027766    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *           1       31222    15735636    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdd2           31222      158816    64307565+   5  Extended
/dev/hdd5           31222       62444    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hdd6           62444       93665    15735636   83  Linux
/dev/hdd7           93665       95753     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdd8           95754      158816    31783718+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       30401   244196001    5  Extended
/dev/sda5               1        2611    20972794+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            2612        5222    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            5223        7180    15727603+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            7181        9138    15727603+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9            9139       11096    15727603+  83  Linux
/dev/sda10          11097       13054    15727603+  83  Linux
/dev/sda11          13055       16971    31463271    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda12          16972       22192    41937651   83  Linux
/dev/sda13          22193       26108    31455238+  83  Linux
/dev/sda14          26109       30401    34483491   83  Linux

Disk /dev/dm-0: 35.3 GB, 35307651072 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4292 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 64.7 GB, 64751665152 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7872 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 42.9 GB, 42941284352 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5220 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table


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