> Ok, now i'm confused. i recently used (couple of hours ago) a cd to try and > install 9.1 RC2 on a laptop. I didn't get all the way through because the > laptop i "commandeered" wasn't mine and needed tobe used for other > purposes. Regardless, on the laptop i did get to an installation screen and > got as far as the Update/Install dialog.
Well isn't this embarassing. Actually this was the 9.1 rc1 cd that i made earlier. the 9.1 rc2 installation did in fact fail. >Fast forward to a couple of > minutes ago and i try the same thing on my computer. I get the same bloody > error message. Now obviuosly the disk working on one computer (ibm laptop) > and not working on another (custom built desktop) isn't a problem of faulty > media. the media actually failed on both computers so by my own logic it must have been the disks that was faulty. >this leads me to believe that the kernel is in fact at fault or > maybe ACPI support in the kernel. I'm going to try this again with ACPI > support disabled and then enabled in BIOS to see what happens. failed, failed and failed again. No matter what i change my acpi setting to yhe installations stops at tge same point. >On a very > distressing sidenote the botched installation seemed to have somehow messed > up CMOS or wherever the bios memory is kept. After hitting the restart > button (i was instructed at the console that i could do so) i decided to > shut down instead. A couple minutes later i turned on the computer and i > had to reset everything in bios. It looked just as it did after i put it > together and turned it on for the first time. If i manage to get this to > happen again (and i'll try my damndest) i'll file a bug report. Not reproduced yet. >But for now > i suggest reopening this one in case it was closed because of my previuos > reply. Scratch that. it was the media that did it. I'll be more careful reporting from memory next time -- What hath Bob wrought?
