Installing on eMachines eMonster 1000

Mike Hockings veeshooter at hockings.net
Mon Jan 5 05:58:09 UTC 2004


>From my small experience RH/Fedora seems to be sensitive to the CD and
CD drive "goodness" (for lack of a beter technical term :-).

I've gotten the best results by burning the CD-R's at or below their
rated write speed.

Mike

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:50, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> It boots Windows XP just fine and without a long wait. In fact, there 
> has been slight improvement in boot timings since adding an ATI Radeon 
> 7500 PCI video card and then updating it to the latest ATI driver version.
> 
> The CDRW drive is an TDK CDRW 4800B. When the Fedora Core 1 CD #1 is put 
> in this drive, and you start Windows Explorer, and click on the drive 
> letter for this drive, the hard drive activity light goes on and never 
> turns off and the hourglass icon goes on and never disappears. There is 
> no way to get this to stop short of pressing the CD eject button on the 
> CD drive.
> 
> When the Fedora Core 1 CD #3 is put in the drive, repeating the process 
> described above, the same thing happens and then after about 60 seconds 
> the Windows Explorer right-side pane fills with the contents of the CD 
> root directory. You can click on the subfolders and see their contents 
> with no problem.
> 
> The difference between these two CD's (besides the fact that one is 
> bootable) is that CD #1 was recorded using cdrecord with speed=52 and CD 
> #3 was recorded using cdrecord with speed=36. As I say below all CD's 
> have passed mediacheck.
> 
> However perhaps CD #1 is still bad, so I've burned a new CD #1 using 
> cdrecord at speed=8.
> 
> I'll try your other suggestions. I thought both acpi and DMA are off by 
> default in Fedora Core? I'll check for APIC options in the BIOS.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your time, effort, and help.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Robert L Cochran um 07:16:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm installing Fedora from installation CD's on an eMachines eMonster 
> >>1000. This machine is running Microsoft Windows XP. The goal is to dual 
> >>boot XP and Fedora. I added a second hard drive onto which Fedora will 
> >>be installed. Pentium III, 1 Ghz system. The motherboard is an Anaheim, 
> >>either the 2, 2A, or 3 -- I think probably the Anaheim-3 but can't be 
> >>sure. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon PCI 7500.
> >>
> >>All the installation CDs passed the media checking.
> > 
> > 
> > Good.
> > 
> > 
> >>When I try to boot from CD #1 to start the install, the hard drive light 
> >>goes on for a long time. Then the line
> >>
> >>ISOLINUX...
> >>
> >>shows up and remains there with no other monitor activity for more than 
> >>60 seconds.
> >>
> >>Sometimes, the ISOLINUX... line is blanked out and the system boots 
> >>Windows XP.
> >>
> >>Sometimes, the ISOLINUX... is replaced with the graphical Fedora Core 
> >>splash and the familiar boot: prompt.
> >>
> >>If I then press <enter> to start the default install, or type
> >>
> >>linux acpi=on
> >>
> >>the hard drive light will go on, and the installer will load very 
> >>slowly. That is, vmlinuz and initrd will load with glacial slowness. So 
> >>does everything after that. I will come to the screen where I'm offered 
> >>a media check. I skip that. Progress continues with extreme slowness, 
> >>always accompanied by a brightly lit hard drive light. In fact the CD/RW 
> >>light doesn't seem to come on as often as it should given this is a CD 
> >>install.
> > 
> > 
> > If you directly boot Windows XP all is fast? Your describtion sounds to
> > me like a hardware problem with the CD drive. So on WinXP it is usable
> > without any problem?
> > 
> > 
> >>Maybe I need to pass
> >>
> >>linux acpi=on hdc=ide-scsi?
> > 
> > 
> > For a start I would leave acpi call away and the ide-scsi call is only
> > needed when you want your CD/RW to use for CD burning. During install I
> > would leave that away. You can define that afterwards.
> > 
> > 
> >>The BIOS doesn't seem to have a "Plug and Play OS" option. Under 
> >>advanced options one can select from "Win98/Win2000", "Win95", or 
> >>"Other". I tried booting under "Win98/Win2000" and "Other".
> > 
> > 
> > Other might be the correct and certainly means no plug 'n pray OS.
> > 
> > 
> >>What could be causing these problems?
> > 
> > 
> > Hard to say. Maybe your machine needs special kernel parameters, even to
> > recognize full RAM size. Unfortunately I do not know your motherboard. I
> > recommend some other boot parameters like disabling acpi, disabling ide
> > dma. If you have a BIOS option for changing APIC try mode 1.1 instead of
> > 1.4.
> > 
> > 
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>Bob
> > 
> > 
> > Alexander
> > 
> > 





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