question about ASUS motherboard

[David Niemi]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 16:36 +0100, François Patte wrote:
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> David Niemi a écrit :
> | On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:53 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> |
> |>Bonjour,
> |>
> |>I'd like to know if the motherboard: ASUS P5WD2 Premium is supported by
> |>FC4. I have a Intel pentium D 830 on it.
> |>
> |>I tried to boot FC4, but:
> |>
> |>1- I got only the "text" and no fedora logo
> |>
> |>2- When I press "Enter", the kernel begins to load but the process stops
> |>in a few seconds and I come back to the ASUS splash screen.
> |>
> |>Thanks for any help (maybe quick: I have only a little time to change
> |>things...)
> |
> |
> | François:
> | Try entering a little gibberish (like jdfjfhf) from the prompt and
> | hitting enter.  You will get an error about kernel jdfjfhf not found.
> | Then hit enter again and it may run.
> 
> I'll try this. quite surprising anyway...
> |
> | If it doesn't, look at this page:
> | http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=25826
> 
> I tried "rescue" option, but, I'll try some more. With rescue, the
> result was the same.
> 
> 
> | Otherwise without knowing more about your hardware
> 
> Here is the description on the ASUS site for the motherboard.
> 
> - - Intel 955X chipset
> - - Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU
> - - Dual-Core CPU
> - - Native DDR2 800 Support
> - - Universal PCI-E Slot
> - - PEG Link
> - - AI NOS™
> 
> And the processor:
> 
> Intel® Pentium® D processor 830:
> 
> Architecture:   90 nm, LGA775
> Cache:          2x1MB L2
> Clock Speed:    3 GHz
> Front Side Bus: 800 MHz
> Dual-core:      yes
> Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology: yes
> Intel® EM64TΦ: yes
> Execute Disable Bit°: yes
> 
> But I don't understand much on hardware problems. I maybe understand
> that this architecture is a 64 bits one (am I right?) and I tried to
> install FC4_i386.... Should I install FC4-x86_64 ?
> 
> Hélas! no message at all! only reboot!

>From what you are seeing the rescue mode won't work, especially since
you haven't installed yet.

Try some of the other boot options when you see the prompt, like:

linux nofb

If you search around on the list archives and also on the forum that I
linked to you will probably find some more useful options or solutions.