Fedora 8 Installation Issue

[Srikanth Konjarla]

Actually, after the media check installer throws "loader received
SIGSEGV!" and quits. I have tried the installer with noapic and
acpi=off options to no avail. I had no installation issues with Fedora
7. Here is the smolt link for the laptop.

http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show_all?UUID=8abc1e5c-e0d4-4570-b527-0f07aca66cfc

Srikanth

On Nov 9, 2007 6:12 PM, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install Fedora 8 (i386) onto a machine which is already
> running Fedora 7. The loader crashes after loading initial drivers and
> past the "Disk check". I guess it could be due to a driver that is
> loaded but not sure. Is there a way to prevent a particular driver from
> loading such as pata_amd at the time of installation?
>
> Thanks
>
> Srikanth
>