Fedora 4 install woes

From: Edward Diener No Spam (eldiener_no_spam_here_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/08/05

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    Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:50:04 GMT

    I had Fedora 3 running nicely on my computer with almost no problems. When I
    bought a new, large hard disk and put it on my Raid controller, though without
    configuring it for RAID but just supporting normal IDE access, I thought I would
    install Fedora 4 near the end of it.

    Here are some of my problems:

    1) Attempting to install in graphics mode, the screen went completely blank and
    nothing ever showed at a stage in the installation where Fedora 4 is trying, no
    doubt, to switch to graphics mode. In Fedora 3 I had no problems with my video
    card and monitor. So I installed again and switched to installing in line text mode.

    2) In line text mode everything went OK until in the post-installation step I
    received a message which said, in all its informative glory, "Post-installation
    has failed", and then the machine said, after a plethora of messages written all
    over the screen, "It is OK to reboot", and I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, and after I
    rebooted and attempted to boot into Fedora 4 my Boot Manager, System Commander
    8.13, told me the boot record was corrupt and I could not boot the system.

    The Fedora 4 boot partition spans the 137 GB boundary ( I said I had a large
    hard drive ). I know my BIOS supports hard drives greater than 137 GB. Is it
    really possible that Linux, or Fedora Core 4 more precisely, or perhaps grub
    even more precisely, does not ? Could this be causing the problem and Fedora
    Core 4 could not set up the grub boot loader at the beginning of the partition
    to boot the OS ?

    The only other thing I can think of is lack of support for my Raid controller,
    but since the installation found my hard disks and partitions for hard drives
    off of it, that hardly seems possible. Most mysterious is that my video
    adapter/monitor ran flawlessly under Fedora 3, and fails miserably in the
    installation step in Fedora 4.

    This is disappointing and unexpected. It is as if Fedora 4 is a decidedly
    backward step in functionality from the relatively smooth running of Fedora 3.
    If anybody has any idea why this OS should have failed so miserably on my
    machine to install, I would love to hear about it, else it looks like I must
    choose some other Linux distribution.

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