DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

[Knute Johnson]

>The F8T1 DVD does not install on my Dell Inspiron 8600
>laptop (Service Tag: DC0Y441  BIOS: A14).
>After choosing "Install" from the main menu I see the
>following:
>
>   Loading vmlinuz ............................
>   Loading initrd.img .......................
>   .....
>   Ready.
>
>then the system hangs.
>
>I tried the F8T1 DVD on my Dell Dimension 1100 tower, the
>verify of the media was good and the install went
>okay.
>
>Pat
>---
>
>P.S. I just installed the F7 DVD on the 8600 laptop without problems

Pat:

I'm having the same problem with a couple of older Dells but with the 
LiveCD or the boot.iso from the DVD, with both F7 and F8T1.  I filed 
a bug on this for the LiveCD.

The bug is #251724.

I don't know how you add your input to the bug but it might help get 
somebody to look at it.

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Knute Johnson
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