FC2 install hangup - no luck after 2 hours fiddling

[Rick Stevens]

Dalibor Petricevic wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:40:12 -0400, Phil Schaffner  
> <Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 13:01 +0200, Dalibor Petricevic wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:54:00 +0200, Fons van der Beek <fons at so-o.nl>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > try
>>> > ide=nodma as bootparameter for the install
>>>
>>> o.k. latter today I will try
>>> also, I did not found any *usable* tips concerning Nvidia
>>> (and I think THAT is not the problem since the thing freez on the
>>> begining, while still in pure textual mode)
>>
>>
>> Agree - have seen/had lots of NVidia problems but only in X, usually
>> something to do with proprietary drivers (except for the dead fan on the
>> NVidia card that killed my machine yesterday, but that's OT).  A search
>> of the list archive and/or bugzilla will turn up plenty on NVidia and
>> the 4k stack problem, etc., etc....
> 
> 
> Hy Phil,
> 
> yeah, no help there.
> 
>> You don't say if you actually tried the "Check Media" option.  If so,
>> just be sure to do md5sums in advance to verify the media and skip that
>> step.  Had a hang at that point in an FC2 test install a while back, but
>> skipping the media check let the install proceed successfully.
> 
> 
> thats the problem. I get red box saying "check media", there's two 
> buttons  but AT THAT point nothing works any more. Mouse, keyboard, 
> everything  dead. Cant say "yes", cant say "no". Reboot helps :-)
> 
>> Some systems have trouble with ACPI.  Might try acpi=off as a boot
>> parameter also.
> 
> 
> tried that. no help. disabled ACPI in BIOS - no help again :-)

If this is an SMP box (and perhaps even not), have you tried "noapic"?
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