Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4

Hi,

I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine.

1 Probem: When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. *** RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) *** After this messages it prints out some exception trace.

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If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "-" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error).

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I'm getting the following error when booting to a 2.6.15.4 kernel I compiled myself: 17179573.58000 Kernel Panic - not syncing; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown...

2 Problem: a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these parbreastions through parbreastion magic. b# I selected boot loader to be installaed ondev-hda4 (Linux parbreastion) and kept default starting os as windows parbreastion. c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glbutt mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w-o showing Fedora Grab loader window. e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on thedev-hda4 linux parbreastion as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result.

Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows parbreastions.

The System Details: MB : Intel D865GVHZ CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "-" and swap parbreastions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB

-Mandy

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		Installer hangs on "Installing bootloader" of Fedora Core 4 Hi, I am facing following problems while installing Fedora 4 on my machine. 1 Probem: When I start the machine with CD#1, I get boot: promt. If I hit enter to proceed installation it starts checking machine resorces. Here it gives me this error followed by some exception trace. * RAMDISK: couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. VFS: couldn't open root device or unknown block "NULL" or (8,3) * After this messages it prints out some exception trace. copying entire dualboot hard drive On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:31:49 -0800, nmdc68 plus 1 This is quite easily done (if you know what you're doing.) You could also The method below isn't the only way... If I enter some invalid value at boot: promp like "-" and enter, it gives error that not a valid boot image. After this it shows again boot: prompt. Not if I hit enter it proceed with instllation and doesnt give above error message (problem#1 error). kernel compile I'm getting the following error when booting to a 2.6.15.4 kernel I compiled myself: 17179573.58000 Kernel Panic - not syncing; VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown... 2 Problem: a# After this I went ahead and selected drives for and swap through disk druid. I had prepared these parbreastions through parbreastion magic. b# I selected boot loader to be installaed ondev-hda4 (Linux parbreastion) and kept default starting os as windows parbreastion. c# I went ahead and selected custom packages to be installed. It asked me for all the cds one by one as installation made progress. d# After completing the packages installation and post installation tasks it displayed a message box stating "Installing bootloader". Here it went wrong. It was showing me hour-glbutt mouse icon but I guess it was hung. It didnt give me any error message. Finally after waiting for a long time I restarted the machine and my windows os started w-o showing Fedora Grab loader window. e# I thought it couldnt write bootloader on thedev-hda4 linux parbreastion as it physically appears in the end of my hard-disk. So i repeated the whole procedure by selecting boot loader installation on MBR (step b#). But this couldnt resolve the problem and I found the same result. Can anybody explain the reason behind these two problems? Also any solution to get Fedora core 4 installed on my machine without formatting existing windows parbreastions. The System Details: MB : Intel D865GVHZ CPU : Intel P4 2.4 GHZ H-DISK : Samsung 80 GB (Linux ext2 "-" and swap parbreastions lies at the end of the physical hard-disk) RAM : 256 + 256 Total 512 MB -Mandy List \| Previous \| Next



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