[Asus p5a] impossible to install fedora-core

[Rick Stevens]

Hervaen wrote:
> Le lun 23/02/2004 à 02:43, Jeff Ratliff a écrit :
> 
> Thanks for your reply
> 
> 
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Hervaen" <hervaen at free.fr>
>>To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:33 PM
>>Subject: [Asus p5a] impossible to install fedora-core
>>
>>
>>>The hardware is;
>>>
>>>Motherboard; Asus P5A ATX socket 7
>>>CPU; K6 2 amd 500 mhz
>>>DD ide udma 13 Go
>>>graphic card; Woodoo 3000 AGP
>>>sound card; sound blaster 16pci
>>>
>>
>>I have this motherboard (BIOS revision 1007)
>>K6-3 400 Mhz
>>Quantum 20 Gig HD
>>NVIDIA TNT2 model 64 graphics
>>Soundblaster PCI 512
>>
>>So far it has worked flawlessly. Graphical install worked fine, no crashes
>>in 2 months.
>>
>>
>>>After probing graphic card, monitor and mouse  the screen is all black and
>>>stop, impossible to have the install screen
>>>
>>>sometimes, (1 time on 20) I can install fedora but after the reboot I have
>>
>>a
>>
>>>kernel panic
>>>
>>>It seems that the problem comes from udma and I have to change something
>>
>>in
>>
>>>Bios but after surfing on the web since several days I don't find anything
>>
>>I just rebooted my system and went into the BIOS and chose "set BIOS
>>defaults" and although my USB stuff no longer worked, the system still
>>booted fine (I'm running 2.5.22-1.2149.nptl kernel). This hard drive runs in
>>UDMA mode without any problems.
>>
>>You could try disabling DMA mode for the hard drive in the BIOS, and seeing
>>if that stops the kernel panic.
> 
> 
> 
>>I'd also pull the sound card and see if that helps. I'd also suspect the
>>video card. Do you have another to swap in to test?
> 
> 
> Yes
> 
> 
>> Have you tried a text
>>mode install rather than the graphical install?
> 
> 
> Yes, with the same result, I also test with a command line at boot
> "linux nodma ", default, expert, screen=
> 
>>Sorry if this didn't help much, but at least you know one person is running
>>this motherboard without problems.

Uhm, did you try "noapic" (seeing that this is an AMD system).  If that
works, make sure you upgrade the BIOS on the motherboard.
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