Asus p4p800 deluxe BROKEN INSTALL on FC5- FC6-FC7

[Randy Ramsdell]

ipggi wrote:
> I have an Asus P4P800, people online over the years have suggested all
> kinds of boot tinkering and software changes. None of them ever work.
>
> The ONLY way you are going to get this board to work with Fedora is
> to change a BIOS setting.
>
> In your BIOS goto ..
>
> Main > IDE Configuration > Onboard IDE Operate Mode
>
> Change it from Enhanced Mode to Compatible Mode.
>
> After you have installed Fedora you can return it back to Enhance
> mode.
>   
Bringing back this thread. This was the solution 4 years ago and it did 
work for Fedora 3, but subsequent  versions of Fedora, until recently,  
have installed  using SATA mode. Fedora 4 or 5 installs without 
problems. Fixing fstab is just a pain in the azz after using 
compatibility mode.  I know  RHEL 4 does install without problems but 
Cent0S 5 does not and I assume that means RHEL 5 will not.  I have found 
that Suse 10.3 also works and  the rt2x00 driver is activated too, but I 
found the network so slow that it become unusable. Besides, who wants to 
use Suse especially after they signed that stupid agreement with MS.  
Since I had to switch back to a hard drive sitting on my desk running 
XP.  I find this whole process to be  ridiculous at best.  Why fix 
something that HAD a  bug  filed in bugzilla years ago and now doesn't 
work anymore. It is embarrassing to even be dealing with this problem 
now and you can EASILY see why people stay with windows. I personally 
had to and I work as a Linux Admin. full time. Can I probably get it to 
work? Yes. Do I want to use a work around 3 years after the problem was 
resolved through official channels? No.
>> Randy Ramsdell wrote:
>> Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in
>>     
> several
>   
>> years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it
>>     
> was
>   
>> FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around
>>     
> it
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>> and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find
>>     
> a way
>   
>> to get it installed.
>>
>> So now it has been a year or so without being able to run
>>     
> Fedora/CentOS.
>   
>> Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not
>>     
> Suse.
>   
>> Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board?
>>
>> Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard
>>     
> drives
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>> either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda
>>     
> shows
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>> the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you
>> know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see
>>     
> is a
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>> single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array
>>     
> even
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>> after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system
>> unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot.
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