I have a laptop with core 2 duo intel chip with two hard disks, 120 GB each. One have windows vista and in the other I wanted to install fedora 8.0.

I have 4.0 GB ram, nVIDIA Graphics card 256 mb.

I tried to install fedora 8.0 x86_64 which I burnt from the image I downloaded from the site using bit torrent.

Here I am writing what exactly it is written before the system freezes...

Root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
[Linux_bz Image, setup=0x2c00, size = 0x1d3c18]
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
[linux_initrd @ox37c2f000,0x3c0804 bytes]

Decompressing linux...done
Booting the kernel
Red Hat nash version 6.0.19 starting
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active


Kernel Alive


After this nothing happens....

I have intel core(2) Duo t7700 I hope this can support x86_64...

I tried Ubuntu also which is running very fine... But I required this fedora to be installed...

I really do not know whats going on... and I need help.. I am a novice with linux.. just know how to work around a few programs in this OS. and I need to do some urgent work...

So ur help will be greatly acknowledged... If u want any other information please write...

Thanks....

...Suman

I am assuming you ran the check media utility. I have a similar problem when I install Windows XP on my system. I found disconnecting the Fedora drive works. Try disconnecting the cable to your Windows drive. If Fedora is going to be your primary os and you use grub, you will need to add these lines to your grub.conf file:

title Windohs Vista
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Also, what type of drives do you have, SATA, SCSI, IDE etc?

Thanks for the reply....

I want windows to be the primary OS. anyway my windows Vista is working properly. there is some problem with the fedora...


Both My hard drives are SATA.... they are from Dell and it is inspiron 1720 laptop..

May not get Fedora to install but... when you check windows partition manager, the second drive is listed as available and unpartitioned, right? My concern is if Fedora is installed and Windows assumes the drive is avaiable, something could be overwritten. I still think you should disconnect the Windows drive, unless that is an issue with the warrantee.

Sorry - ignore this post

You may be having the same issue I am having. Although I made it though the install, it could be related.

Fedora 8 won't boot if there is a partition type of 165 (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, etc.) on the system and does the same thing you are describing. So it may not be limited to that partition type. I filed a bug on it here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375591

You may want to try removing 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from the boot options and see if you get similar output to this:

Trying to resume from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01

If so you may want to add your input to the bug link above.

Another simpler solution is to verify the install disk. Try downloading another copy of the os, maybe without using bittorrent. And don't forget to run the media check at the start of the install.

I did check the media before installation... it got passed without any error...