Update3: Fedora FC2 Install Failure

[John Best]

Well,

Asus P4PE 2.6Ghz 512M Ram
S3Virge PCI 4M Video
160 G IDE (2 80 g partitions for windows)
40 G IDE for Linux
NO SATA attachments

Currently running Windows XP and Redhat 9 off of separate hard disks...



I ran through the boot sequence again for installation of FC2 off of the cd

text portion of the boot works fine

Get to /sbin/loader

All is well.  Blue screen with Fedora Core displayed.

Get popup on USB driver install
Get Popup on Sata_Promise driver install

Thats it... Hang.  After about 1 minute screen fills with funny characters
and hard reset required to clear

I also tried the boot disk recommended for the P4P800 motherboard issue.
Seems to get to the same spot in the boot sequence before hanging in the
same way...

I have also tried several parameters on the boot (probably Including some
that do not exist  8^)  )
nofb nousb nosata noprobe

At this point I would suspect a problem with the SATA driver/subsystem as
that is the last message/screen I get.. Not sure what comes after that point
in the normal load sequence.

Thanks for the help.

John Best
jbest at insightbb.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of jbest at insightbb.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:03 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Update2: Fedora Install Failure


I also checked the Looonnnggg thread on the bug report for the p4p800 class
mother board... At first glance this is not the same problem.... My linux
seems
to boot up during install, but the installer seems to die... I get the Blue
screen (Fedora Core on top left) with prompts on how to proceed/select
items,
etc.

After some initial messages about initializing usb, sata, etc (I will have
to
try and capture the sequence) The box appears to hang...  Disk Light on for
about a minute or 2... Then

Poof... Junk characters all over the screen and nothing... No keyboard, no
num
lock, etc... Hard reset...

The box is currently running Win xp and Redhat 9 on separate hard drives
with
boot floppy...

Also Video card is OLD compared to rest of hardware... 4M S3 pci card.  This
was my first thought due to the funny characters...

Thanks for your patience...(And sorry about the subject problem...)


----------------------  Forwarded Message:  ---------------------
From:    jbest at insightbb.com
To:      For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Update: Fedora Install Failure
Date:    Wed, 8 Sep 2004 19:23:06 +0000

ASUS P4PE motherboard with 2.6g P4... Just found similar (though not exact)
message for ASUS p4p800  Same problem/Solution????


> On Sep 8, 2004 at 15:55, jbest at insightbb.com in a soothing rage wrote:
>
> >I am having problems installing Fedora.   I have downloaded the FC2
release
and
> >checked the information with md5sum.  Everything checked ok.  During the
> >install I get to the point where a blue screen with Fedora Core appears.
The
> >process runs for a minute or 2.  Then the screen fills with garbage
characters
> >and the process stops.
> [...]
>
> >Anyone have any ideas?
> Hardware. What hardware do you have?
>
> N.Emile...
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