installing f8/hang at 'loading ata_piix'

[Jim Cornette]

John Minson wrote:
> Trying to install f8 on intel core 2 duo/sata hdd/dvd writer/shuttle xpc .
> The problem with the install 'hanging' at the 'loading ata_piix driver' 
> seems to be commonly reported but has several variants . My situation is 
> of the form
> 
> 1) install 'stalls' at 'loading ata_piix driver' for a few minutes
> 2) install eventually asks from whence you want to install
> 3) seems the dvd drive we booted from is now 'lost'
> 
> Is there any info about what is causing this ? Is a bug or a feature ? 
> Will it be addressed (perhaps it has been)?
> I have seen some posts about various boot options helping the situation 
> but nothing has worked for me  yet.
> 
> My next move is to boot from usb dvd and try installing .
> After that I come to installing from the network.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> 
> 
> 

I can give some information regarding what I have seen to cause 
problems. One problem is with discs being burned on a DVD+R media using 
a burner would fail in that way. I ended up taking that disk on a DVD-R 
player and making an ISO of the disc.  then burned another disc on a 
computer that only could write to DVD+R discs, the target computer and 
after transferring the iso file make a successful recording from the 
target machine and proceeded afterward to successfully upgrade the computer.
There was also another problem related to the DVD burner not being 
recognized and it would report the CD/DVD as /media/disk. This sounds 
like on a guess what is happening to you. I don't know if this is your 
problem but it was fixed from reporting the DVD burner, USB in my case 
and the burner worked on later Fedora release.

These situations may not be what is happening on your system. I am just 
trying to put out some possibilities.

Jim

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