FC-5. Cannot install in graphical or text modes

James Wilkinson fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 26 12:22:59 UTC 2006


Teilhard Knight wrote:
> I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard (with RAID), an AMD Athlon 1400 MHz
> CPU, 512 Mb of RAM memory, one Maxtor 4G160J8 (160 Gb) and one Promise
> 1+0 Stripe/RAID0 (200 Gb) hard drives, and a Creative SB Live! 5.1
> sound card. I also have one Sony DVD+RW RW5120, one HP CD-Writer cd16e
> and one Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-116 optical drives. The two HD's are
> partitioned in several partitions that hold WinXP, Mandriva, FreeBSD,
> Fedora and there are more than one partitions just for data.
> 
> I hope these information will help you to get a more accurate idea of
> what is going on.

I count five disks. One Maxtor (presumably a standalone), and four for
striping and mirroring.

Which OSes are on which disks? Do you plan to install Fedora to the
Maxtor or the RAID?

What happens if you enter
linux nodmraid
at the first prompt, immediately after booting the CD/DVD?

James.

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