Anyone had this probleme before? I can Install Debian bookworm just fine, but on the same machine, during the installation of Tumbleweed and Fedora the system just freeze. On Fedora it always freezes at the step “Configuring kernel-core X86_64”

I suspect it might be related to the kernel version but somebody might have another clue.

For reference it’s a (+/-) 10 years old desktop with and old ati radeon gpu .

EDIT : In case someone is stuck with the same problem … putting the SATA controller in AHCI mode (in the BIOS) has solved my problem.

  • zjhitni@lemmy.worldOP
    8·
    1 year ago

    Well … putting my sata controller in AHCI mode (in the BIOS) seems to have solved my problem.

    • zjhitni@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yep . I hadn’t tried the install from the live USB since at first I created a fedora-server USB installer , so I gave it a go. It boots in the live-os just fine, but installation on HD fails.

  • tal@lemmy.today
    3·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know what in the Fedora installer could cause that, but if you just want to get it working, you might try installing an old version and upgrading it, see if the older installer has the same problem.

    • zjhitni@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I saw somewhere that Fedora has stopped supporting legacy bios so I tought that might do the trick, but nope … same problem with Fedora 36.

      I finally solved the problem by putting the SATA controller in AHCI mode (in the bios).

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    Guess that says a LOT about how good Debian is. No reason to use unreliable stuff then.