fc6 installation hangs at /sbin/loader

Get a new motherboard


or try the following kernel parameters:

noapic acpi=off


or try using the Silicon Image SATA controller instead with SATA to PATA converters if you have to

finally try the JMicron controller



GL :-D

the problem you are having reminds me quite a bit of an issue that I had (and still have to some degree). For a long time, I couldn't use liveCDs or install FC5 or FC6 because the disk wouldn't even make it to anaconda. I eventually found out that my motherboard has incredibly shitty support for apic and acpi, so i learned I could get around that by using the kernel options when the disk first loads a prompt for you.

At the prompt I attached options like noacpi, acpi=off, noapic, nolapic

Try a combination of one or more to see which will work for you. If there are any other apic/acpi related kernel options available, try those too.

Be warned though, since you have a newer board, this might not be the problem since in theory the implimentation of ACPI should be better by now. HOWEVER, seeing as how you have an ASUS board like I do (although mine is quite a bit older), you might as well give it a shot and see what works for you.

After all the heartache my motherboard has given me, I don't think I will be trusting ASUS again any time soon  

-Zorak

I forgot to give you this link:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-b...


Also a BIOS update may help fix this so try the latest BIOS. Make sure you backup your existing BIOS first. Because you may have to go back to it.

GL :-D

I had the exact same problem with an old compaq 5013 - very old - but both Redhat and Oralce Linux. Both stoped at /sbin/loader during the install from CDROM. I read the post below and tried a few notes without sucess.

The screen flickers just after /sbin/loader - like it trying to start up the installation GUI.

I checked the BIOS and my onboard video controller was set to grab 8MB of memory for Video - I was able to increase it to 32MB - and the installation of Oracle Linux 6 - now works.

Those thread hasn't been posted in in over 4 years. I don't think it's much of an issue anymore  

I mean who the hell would want to run an Oracle product anyway after what they've done with Sun / OpenOffice / Java....

I thought we all agreed we wouldn't mention this