Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz... Ready!
 

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:31 -0500, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I burned the dvd iso of F8, and when I booted the DVD
> and selected upgrade, it loaded fine and went on to
>
> vmlinuz blah blah...
>
> then completely stalls or freezes on "Ready". Well it was like that
> for hours. So I couldn't upgrade my FC6 box with F8. Even when I
> reboot it, it's still the same story.

We need LOTS more info, Peter. Computer make/model (or processor type
and motherboard make/model), video card, type of hard drive (SATA, SCSI,
IDE), memory size, that sort of thing. Also make sure the BIOS on the
machine is the current release (check with the computer or motherboard
maker's website).

The most common problems have to do with interrupt routing, DMA
channels, APMI issues and that sort of thing. There's lots of work-
arounds and we need to know what may be appropriate for you. If you
could tell us what's displayed when you hit "ALT-F3" and "ALT-F4" when
it's stalled, that may help as well.

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Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz... Ready!
 

Please read below:

On Dec 21, 2007 1:00 PM, Rick Stevens <rstevens@internap.com> wrote:

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:31 -0500, Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> * * * * * * * *I burned the dvd iso of F8, and when I booted the DVD
> and selected upgrade, it loaded fine and went on to
>
> vmlinuz blah blah...
>
> then completely stalls or freezes on "Ready". Well it was like that

> for hours. So I couldn't upgrade my FC6 box with F8. Even when I
> reboot it, it's still the same story.

We need LOTS more info, Peter. *Computer make/model (or processor type

and motherboard make/model), video card, type of hard drive (SATA, SCSI,
IDE), memory size, that sort of thing. *Also make sure the BIOS on the
machine is the current release (check with the computer or motherboard

maker's website).
Thanks for the reply Rick. Here's what I can tell you about my system:

Dell DM051 x86x86 Family 15* Model 4 Stepping 7 Intel 2793 MHz
Intel 82845G chipset
RAM 2 GBSATA drive
BIOS version Dell Inc A05, 3 /31/2006 (Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS version* 1.10 A05)




The most common problems have to do with interrupt routing, DMA
channels, APMI issues and that sort of thing. *There's lots of work-
arounds and we need to know what may be appropriate for you. *If you
could tell us what's displayed when you hit "ALT-F3" and "ALT-F4" when

it's stalled, that may help as well.

Nothing's displayed at all. I don't have a problem with either the F7 or FC6 boot DVDs! :(



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Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz... Ready!
 

Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:

> I burned the dvd iso of F8, and when I booted the DVD and
> selected upgrade, it loaded fine and went on to
>
> vmlinuz blah blah...
>
> then completely stalls or freezes on "Ready". Well it was like that for
> hours. So I couldn't upgrade my FC6 box with F8. Even when I reboot it,
> it's still the same story.
>
> Any clues?

If that happened to me, I would try the Fedora-8 KDE Live CD.
If that worked OK, it would mean that Fedora-8 will certainly run
on this machine, sooner or later ...


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Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz... Ready!
 

Great! This is exactly the problem. Hmm I'm glad that this issue has been pointed out before. I'll try the couple of suggestions mentioned from Bugzilla and also from the list. Thanks everybody.
Cheers,
-- Peter "Excalibur"

On Dec 21, 2007 4:06 PM, Paul Lemmons <
paul.lemmons@tmcaz.com> wrote:






-------- Original Message* --------

Subject: Cannot upgrade box to Fedora 8... DVD stalled on vmlinuz...**
*Ready!

From: "Excalibur Xcalibur" <excalibur.xcalibur@gmail.com>

To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Cc: rstevens@internap.com

Date: 12/21/2007 12:21 PM

Please read
below:



On Dec 21, 2007 1:00 PM, Rick Stevens <rstevens@internap.com>
wrote:




On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:31 -0500, Excalibur
Xcalibur wrote:


> Hi Folks,

> * * * * * * * *I burned the dvd iso of F8, and when I booted the
DVD

> and selected upgrade, it loaded fine and went on to

>

> vmlinuz blah blah...

>

> then completely stalls or freezes on "Ready". Well it was like
that


> for hours. So I couldn't upgrade my FC6 box with F8. Even when I

> reboot it, it's still the same story.





We need LOTS more info, Peter. *Computer make/model (or processor type

and motherboard make/model), video card, type of hard drive (SATA, SCSI,

IDE), memory size, that sort of thing. *Also make sure the BIOS on the

machine is the current release (check with the computer or motherboard

maker's website).


Thanks for the reply
Rick. Here's what I can tell you about my system:



Dell DM051 x86

x86 Family 15* Model 4
Stepping 7 Intel 2793 MHz


Intel 82845G chipset

RAM 2 GB
SATA drive
BIOS version Dell Inc
A05, 3 /31/2006 (Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS version* 1.10 A05)








The most common problems have to do with interrupt routing, DMA

channels, APMI issues and that sort of thing. *There's lots of work-

arounds and we need to know what may be appropriate for you. *If you

could tell us what's displayed when you hit "ALT-F3" and "ALT-F4" when


it's stalled, that may help as well.




Nothing's displayed at
all. I don't have a problem with either the F7 or FC6 boot DVDs! :(








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Does this describe your problem?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239585






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