Installing on eMachines eMonster 1000

[Robert L Cochran]

Come to think of it, these are CompUSA shrink wrapped CD-Rs (the kind 
you pick up out of a bin on the floor) that were rated at 48x. Maybe 
that was my goof.

Thanks a lot.

Bob

Mike Hockings wrote:

>>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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