Problems installing FC4 on Dell Optiplex GX620

[Tod Merley]

On 3/17/06, Bruce Keats <brucekeats at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I am having all kinds of problems installing FC4 on a Dell Optiplex
> GX620.  When I try and use the FC4 CDs, it fails to find the hard drive.
> The controller is the on board Intel SATA controller.  I know the hardware
> works fine because I can install FC3 on the Dell and it works as long as the
> BIOS is configured for combined mode.  If I do a yum update, the latest FC3
> kernel fails to boot.
>
> Does anyone know how to install FC4 on these boxes.  I suspect the latest
> 2.6.15 works as reported in http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ushankar/linux-dell.html
> .  Does anyone know how to replace the kernel on the FC4 CDs to get these
> systems to install properly?
>
> Bruce
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Hi Bruce!

Perhaps there are other options (see link):

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Does sound like an HW problem.  Sounds like rebuilding the Kernel you have
may be a good option.

Have fun!

Tod
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