FC4/6 Installer fails on MSI RX480

Gary Huntress ghuntress at comcast.net
Wed Sep 27 21:54:42 UTC 2006


Hi,

I am having trouble installing Fedora on a system with a brand new MSI 
RX480 Neo2 motherboard and an athlon 64.   The remaining hardware is a 
generic 80GB ide drive and two sata drives.  Video is an ancient PCI 
card, diamond stealth I think.

The CD boots ok and I select "linux text" to proceed.  Installation 
proceeds normally right up to what I think says something like "making 
kernel readonly" and the screen fills with what looks like:

[ mem address ]   function name - codes

It may be a panic, I can't tell because the system is frozen and I have 
no way to capture or scroll back the info.  Function names are like:   
fd_install, run_init_process, trace_hardirqs_on_thunk, spin_unlock.   My 
intuition tells me this may be irq related.  I tried booting with 
acpi=off and pci=biosirq as recommended on freenode#fedora but this did 
not help.  I think I've also exhausted all my bios options too.    At 
first I tried FC4 i386 but it was suggested that I try an i386_64 build 
and I tried FC6 test3 but the results were essentially identical.

So my question is, what else could I try, and how can I capture 
additional error information while the installer tries to boot?

Thanks,

Gary H.




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