Problems booting the install CD

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:53:18 -0500 (EST), Steven W. Orr
<steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> On Monday, Feb 7th 2005 at 16:07 -0600, quoth akonstam at trinity.edu:
> 
> =>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> On Monday, Feb 7th 2005 at 11:31 -0800, quoth Rick Stevens:
> =>>
> =>> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> =>> I have had the same problem with Core1 and Core2. Now it's happening again
> =>> =>> with Core3.
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> I have the following config:
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> Tyan K7 Thunder Dual processors Athlon MB with 3 SCSI drives and one IDE
> =>> =>> drive used for backup.
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> Here's df:
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> 513 > df -v
> =>> =>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> =>> =>> /dev/sda3              22G   14G  7.4G  65% /
> =>> =>> /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> =>> =>> /dev/hda1             3.7G  324M  3.2G  10% /f
> =>> =>> /dev/hda2              70G   60G  6.6G  91% /g
> =>> =>> /dev/sdc1             8.4G  6.6G  1.5G  83% /home
> =>> =>> /dev/sdb1             8.4G  6.2G  1.8G  79% /home2
> =>> =>> /dev/sdc2              26G  6.0G   19G  25% /h
> =>> =>> none                  504M     0  504M   0% /dev/shm
> =>> =>> /dev/sda6             9.9G  6.4G  3.1G  68% /usr
> =>> =>> /dev/sda5            1011M  462M  499M  49% /var
> =>> =>> 514 >
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> When I reboot with Install Disk 1, I get the splash screen giving me the
> =>> =>> choice of the (normal graphic or text) (install or upgrage). I choose
> =>> =>> either. I get a few lines saying tha vmlinuz is loading and then the whole
> =>> =>> process just stops dead. I am vershtumped.
> =>> =>>
> =>> =>> Can someone please advise what to do or what additional info I need to
> =>> =>> provide?
> =>> =>
> =>> =>Uh, try adding "noapic" to the boot command.  Dual Athlons sometimes
> =>> =>need that.
> =>>
> =>> Good shot but no dice. It hangs exactly the same way.
> =>>
> =>> I am now officially open to a new suggestion. :-)
> =>>
> =>You don't say but in the install process it seems you don't get the
> =>message that the SCSI driver is being installed. If that is not
> =>happening I would guess the the fedora installer cannot recognize your
> =>SCSI controller. Which controller do you have?
> =>-------------------------------------------
> =>Aaron Konstam
> =>Computer Science
> =>Trinity University
> =>One Trinity Place.
> =>San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
> =>
> =>telephone: (210)-999-7484
> =>email:akonstam at trinity.edu
> =>
> 
> Aaron, this sounds promising. I have a Tyan K7 Thunder motherboard which
> has a pair of Adaptec 7899W controllers. The bootable disc is hooked up to
> one of the two contollers. In addition, there's an IDE drive that's hooked
> up to the builtin IDE controller. The BIOS is config'd to boot off of
> SCSI. Do I need to do anything to tell the CDROM to boot off of SCSI?
> 
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> 

If an IDE drive is installed the code in my Adaptec SCSI controllers
would not load its BIOS.  So the solution for you may be to install
GRUB in the MBR of the IDE drive.