Fedora Installation Third CD reboots the system
 

I made the CD from the *.iso images given from the Fedora website. The installation goes fine with first two CDs and with the third CD after a little while it just terminates and reboots the system.

I have a PIII 500 MHz, 10GB HDD system (PC). There seems to be no error message generated.

I have spent a lot of time figuring out the problem.. Please help!

Did u do an MD5Sum check one the iso image you downloaded for CD 3? Try redownloading 3 and see if that helps. Or, you could try the DVD if you have a DVD Burner on that computer or another, although, since it is one file, it takes a long time to download. Anyways, that's probably all that is wrong.

hey
try out
all these

ctrl+alt+(F4,F5)

during installation just before reboot,u will get he mesage going in background

regards
gaurav

Reply for Post#2 and Post#3
 

Hi!

Thanks for your reply. I tried MD5SUM also and it generates exactly the same thing as mentioned on Fedora Website. Also for the post#3, the reboot does not give me time. As I said earlier it does not generate an error message. At a particular point for CD 3 it just reboots the system.

please help!

hi are u trying the text mode or the gui mode
also check for bad blocks while doing ur installation

it has happend with me that the system reboots after some time during installation but that has happened because of bad media and it notifies me of that

regards
gaurav

Yes, just try reburning disc 3...see if that works...I'vehad bad media before too and all I did was reburn and it worked good.

if the media is bad
then in the gui mode it asks for another CD and ejects the the bad one but no such eorror is reported which amazes me

what can we suggest here???


regards
gaurav

I'm having this same problem with a Gateway G6-450.

I had Red Hat 9.0 installed on the system and I tried to upgrade to Fedora 2 Core. During the first disk of the upgrade, the system rebooted and gave me a grub prompt when it came back up.

I then tried to do a full install of Fedora and it reboots during the third disk, again leaving me with a grub prompt when it comes up.

I've used the Fedora install CDs before, so I know that they are valid and it's the same hard drive that I was running RH 9.0 on so I know that's good too. Just to double check, I've re-installed RH 9.0 and it works just fine.

I've found on http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installreboot that if you "either have an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, or a VIA C3 processor" then this problem is known and can be resolved. But I've double checked the specs on my PC and I'm running a P2-450 on a Jabil BX Motherboard. So I don't think that's going to help me.

Any help on this one would be appreciated. Thanks.