Re: Long standing trouble installing x86_64

BIOS is not the problem. That wasn't a stupud question, the stupid
thing is that I just "solved" the problem and even stupider was the
solution. Yet stupider than that is that I paid for 10.1 x86_64 and
got no useful support.

After much hair pulling, some minor cussing and a couple of hardware
reconfigs, I have resolved this problem myself.

The issue is that the Mandriva (nee Mandrake) installers cannot
adequately deal with a previous Fedora Core 3 install on the target
system. URPMI ends up in an infinite loop attempting to resolve
dependancies. The breakthrough came after i had hand installed urpmi
and was force feeding packages to the system. I got tired of screwing
around with the old installed packages and wiped out the rpm database.
This is when I noticed that urpmi was working through the packages
much faster.

The stupid thing is that nobody could tell me this was the problem. We
all blamed hardware, media, me... anything but the installer.

I don't know what the right answer is to solve this problem, but I am
sure glad that I can move forward.

The sad part is that I have wasted 16 solid hours on this with no
installation support.

Now that I have characterised the problem maybe it can be solved. I'm
off to bitch at the support team :)

On 6/14/05, Dave Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Davis wrote:
> 
> >I purchased a Pogolinux Altura64 workstation that came with Fedora
> >Core. Being a longtime Mandrake user I thought that it woujld be
> >trivial to get this system running with MDK.
> >
> >Sadly I have spent about 16 hours working on this system with both
> >10.1 and 10.2 without getting past the same point.
> >
> >The installer program hangs at the point of "Looking for available packages".
> >
> >I have tried this with several combinations of the following parameters:
> >text
> >alt1
> >alt0
> >ide=nodma
> >noapic
> >nolapic
> >noiopic
> >acpi=off
> >
> >I know that it sees and can access both the cdrom and the SATA hard
> >disk because a secondary boot partition has been formatted. Also I can
> >boot in rescue mode and mount my old partitions.
> >
> >I would be open to doing a raw rpm install if that would work... I'm
> >sick of Fedora
> >
> >~drdreff
> >
> >
> >
> This is likely going to seem like a very dumb question, but is your BIOS
> running the most latest version?
> 
>