Chris Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Todd, > > I have mounted the cd on another machine and checked the md5 against the > XFree864.2.1-1mdk.i586.rpm downloaded from the cooker mirror and the two > are identical. This is not a bad rpm and I guarantee it is not a bad cd > read (no read error logged during install). Please bear in mind that this > problem has ocurred with every single beta of 9.0 (1,2,3,4 and rc1 and > now rc2). Also, the same CDs install fine on another machine. It appears > to be a specific problem with this motherboard or cpu (VIA EPIA Mini-ITX > with Eden 533 processor) and also on the motherboard reported by Robert > Barry (Shuttle FV25 with VIA C3 cpu).
Anyone tried "ide=nodma"? > The only real clue to the failure is the error mentioned below (failure > of the %pre install script). Would you like me to buy you a What's funny is that it fails "with exit code 0" :-). > motherboard/cpu so you can see for yourself, or is there more debugging > that I can do? This problem is 100% reproducible: I must have tried it at > least 14 times. We'd definitely need support from our kernel team to handle such a situation, since it's tied to an hardware combination. Though they seem overworked. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
