Thank you Mark and Bob for responding. I tried the options Mark mentioned and unfortunately it made no difference. I wasn't sure what option I had to use to force it to use ext2 file system or whether it is something that I have to opt for at a later stage than where it is stopping now. I have two DVD devices. It seems to have gone through the first one ok and the last line to do with ide1 on irq 5 (where it stops) appears after going through the second one. the ide0 and ide1 on irq 5 also appeared during the verification of the first DVD. Could it be that there is a conflict here? I checked the two and they do not show any irq assigned to them when I looked at them ifrom Windows. Anticipating more help, Best Regards, Darius ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Knecht <MARKKNECHT@COMCAST.NET> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:57:12 -0800 To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <REDHAT-INSTALL-LIST@REDHAT.COM> Subject: Re: RedHat Linux installation stops with no error at a very earlystage. > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 17:36, Di Ar wrote: > > > > > > Hello Everyone! > > > > I am not getting far with installing RedHat Linux on my PC. I have > > already got Windows XP installed with two partitions on my hard disk. > > I re-boot from CD-ROM. It prompts me with various options for > > installing RedHat linux (version 9) and I choose to install using the > > graphical interface. > > Probably won't matter for this problem, but next time try text based > installation. > > > It goes through a page and half of identifying the devices on my & gt; > machine. Soon after it freezes on the second page with no error > > message. > > > > The last entry see to do with Ide1 on IRQ = 5 > > IRQ=5? (Or possibly IRQ=15?) Normally IDE controllers are on IRQ 14 and > 15. > > > which happens to be the ‘Main Bus Controller’ and looking at it from > > Windows has no driver installed against it. This is where it stops. I > > don’t think it has much to do with the partition into which I want to > > install Linux because it hasn’t even got to that point yet. > > > > I appreciate any help I can get. > > Try booting the installation kernel with nodma nousb options and see if > you get further. > > Good luck, > Mark > > > > > Regards > > > > Darius > > > > > > > ___________________________ ____________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > Redhat-install-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > redhat-install-list-request@redhat.com > Subject: unsubscribe -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com <a href="http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode=adsfreejump01" target="_blank">http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup</a>