Installer reboots installer!

[knowayhack]

Hi, I should start by saying that I'm very new to tech/computers in general, even newer to Linux, but already hooked :-) ,and yet again even newer to Fedora.

Been using Ubuntu based distros with varying degrees of sucess on various machines for several months, but have never come across this particular problem before.
I've googled and tried searching the forum here with different terms but the only reference I can find to the issue I'm experiencing is this Red Hat Bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761087

To be honest, none of the info on this page means much to me in my newbie naivety! Although this report is for a PowerPC install, its the only place I could find that describes my conundrum.
What happens is: the install seems to go perfectly - gets to the end, tells me to reboot to complete installation. When I do so, I just end up back at the installer desktop, I thought maybe I could do yum update from the terminal there to sort it out somehow, but there seems to be no way to run a root command from the install desktop terminal - I just keep getting told off and reported! I'm officially baffled!

Hardware wise, i'm on an Asus A53e, which is dual-booting Xubuntu & Windows sucessfully. For installation I use a Pendrive Linux Yumi Multibooter USB stick. I have also tried dual-booting on my Mac using a EFI hack thing that gets a Lionized MacBook to boot Linux off a USB stick.
Both these install methods work fine with other distros.
Also, I have the exact same issue trying to install in a VM (virtualbox) accross all host OSs (Xubuntu, Mac, Windows). So, I kind of doubt it's a hardware issue......

Furthermore, I have the same issue trying to install CentOS - which I assume is because both distros use the same installer? Anaconda? But as I said, never had this problem with any Ubuntu based distros - or Debian or OpenSuse for that matter.

Apologies if this is a fairly common, easily rectified bug,(it kind of seems as though it must be - I feel like somewhere along the line I'm probably just doing, or failing to do something really stupid!). But as I said, I have tried for sometime to find a solution, and am really keen to try running a Red Hat related distro as my ultimate (and at this point clearly very distant!) goal is to get Red Hat certified. As you can probably gather - i've got rather a long way to go! Lol!

And advice/light shedding would be greatly appreciated.

[Dutchy]

From all the terms I somehow get the impression you're not that new to computers
Anyway, the obvious answer to your question is that you should try your luck with a real cd.
I've experienced an installation of Fedora that first failed off a USB-stick and later on succeded off the DVD.

[nonamedotc]

Also, though CentOS and Fedora use Anaconda, the versions they use are vastly different with the fedora using the newer one (anaconda 16.25 in Fedora 16). So, if it is anaconda problem in CentOS, I am sure it would have been solved by now.

Are you certain that it is not booting from the USB again after installation? I ask this because you say you are seeing this issue even in VirtualBox. I have a feeling that there is something really simple missing somewhere - but I am not able to point out what exactly ....

[knowayhack]

Cheers for the input guys.
As I suspected - it was indeed a case of me being rather stupid, and overlooking something really simple, as you rightly pointed out nonamedotc :-)
Just tried once more with CentOS in a VM and found that if i press F12 before it boots it takes me to my install, whereas by default, it just boots back to the LiveCD - so I'm hoping it was just a case of me missing this on the Fedora install also.
I think maybe when I tried it on the hardware I somehow just installed the LiveCD to disk somehow.... Anyhow, at least I've got something to mess with now. I shall try Fedora again aswell in the VM, before attempting another proper install....
The other thing I was wondering, although possibly this is not the place to ask - as it is well off topic - is which distro would me best for someone wanting to one day take the RHCE and RHCT exams?

[nonamedotc]

I would imagine CentOS might be good since it is supposed to be a faithful RHEL clone. However, my advice is definitely NOT the best as I have never attempted the exams or even read about what constitutes them. So, may be someone else might know....