[Omega_Shadow]

Come on, you guys knew this was comming the moment I said I wanted to change distros

I put in Disk one and booted from it. I pressed Enter to start graphical install, a buch of text fills the screen, mostly my computers config. Then the screen flashes and the process just stops. The last line says something about starting a bootloader.

Any ideas?


Edit> Went back and got the exact line:

Originally Posted by FC3 Installer

Running /sbin/loader

[Headrush]

Usually the last thing done by Linux installers is the boot loader.
If everything else is installed properly, you can boot off a LiveCD or Redhat CD with rescue option (assuming it has one - I'm not a Redhat user), mount the partition and chroot into the system and install GRUB.

eg

mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/tmp
chroot /mnt/tmp /bin/bash

This should have you running in the installed Redhat OS, then

grub

Once in grub, (assumming grub.conf installed by installer

root (hd0,0)
setup(hd0)
quit

Reboot and hopefully should be OK.

** Note /dev/hdaX is replaced by you HD location and (hd0,0) also changed to reflect your HD location)

[Omega_Shadow]

The install program hasn't even ran yet. I thought the code said "bootloader" but I was mistaken. The computer stops in the middle of loading the Installer.

[tsunam]

doesn't get to the point of checking the media then? *tries to remember where in the process that happens*

You seem to have just some bad luck with linux X_X. It does get better.

[Omega_Shadow]

No tsunam, I have bad luck with all OS's, not just linux.

You should see my "I hate XP!" Thread

[lynch]

If your downloading ISOs, you should really check the md5sums that come with them.
They should be in the same mirror directory as the ISOs.
Headrush: FC3 actually comes with it's own seperate RescueCD.
lynch

[Omega_Shadow]

I'll check the Md5sums when I go into linux next. Currently doing some Media work in Windows....