question about ASUS motherboard [SOLVED]

François Patte francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Mon Dec 12 16:47:40 UTC 2005


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.

It run!!!!!!  Who can explain this?

I could install (after understanding that my computer had a 64 bit 
architecture... I was using the wrong distro. But the "jdfjfhf" trick 
was necessary too.

Thanks a lot!

-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte




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