Core 4 Install Problems

Wed Mar 8 22:16:50 UTC 2006

Ok, inadvertently I maybe answering my own question...But at the same time, I'm still unsure of the solution....

When I told you the drives attached, I took them in order from the way that I think that there on the bus:

Board IDE & Raid:
Samsung SV4002H 40 Gig

Maxtor 96147H8 60 Gig

Maxtor 4G160J8 160 Gig

PCI IDE Card 1:

Sony DVD DDU220E

Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWND2

PCI IDE Card 2:

Quantum 4 Gig TM3840A

Seagate ST329OA

SCSI:

NEC CDROM 465 SCSI

Sony CDRW CRX14SS SCSI

Well, the utility that you showed me would be good if I had a smaller system, but from what I see it only installs for the controllers on the board......

I have these controllers in this order with the drives because of the distance of the cables. It would be nice to have the CD's on the board but they are low on the case so I put them on the PCI IDE's.......

So is that what needs to be done?........Put the IDE ROM's on the board?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Albert A. Hocking III 
  To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:39 PM
  Subject: Re: Core 4 Install Problems

  I had seen this but I didn't know anything about it........

  Time to do some homework.......I'll get back with ya'
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ted Potter 
    To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
    Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:27 AM
    Subject: Re: Core 4 Install Problems

    On 3/8/06, Albert A. Hocking III <albertahocking at jasnetworks.net> wrote: 
      Ok, here is an example of the Error that I'm receiving:

      ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying
      to wing it...
      isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F
      isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4209, drive 9F
      Boot failed: press a key to retry...

      Here is my machine:

      Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939

      Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200

      RAM: 2 Gig

      Video: ATI X800

      Sound: SoundBlaster & Retek AC'97 (Onboard)

      LAN: Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/810 (Onboard)

      Secondary IDE: Inclose ID ATA66-2C (2 Cards Total)

      SCSI: AMD PCI

      Drives:

      Samsung SV4002H 40 Gig

      Maxtor 96147H8 60 Gig

      Maxtor 4G160J8 160 Gig

      Sony DVD DDU220E

      Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWND2

      Quantum 4 Gig TM3840A

      Seagate ST329OA

      NEC CDROM 465 SCSI

      Sony CDRW CRX14SS SCSI

      When I tried to install, I took two different routes, first was a SCSI install (which had worked before) and the bios didn't pick up on the disk at all.  Second was from an IDE boot and it posted the previous error.  In that time I spent a whole day trying to figure out how to install Fedora Core 4 from floppy and I haven't found a way to do it.

      All of the images that I find from Redhat are too big for that type of medium and I don't have a flash drive or any other type that is required.  Also, I spent the rest of the day trying to make a Boot Disk from http://syslinux.zytor.com/sbm but I was never successful. I could make the floppy bootable with the *.sys file that was provided but I couldn't get the program to access the drive after that or figure out what files to copy so ldlinux.sys was the only file that I was aware of.

      I know what the obvious answer is and its one that I'm really avoiding for two reasons. I know that to track the hardware down that it doesn't like I should completely tear the machine down and add one thing at a time after install.  This is undesirable for two reasons:

        1.. it would take almost 2 days worth of work 
        2.. anytime Windows has to reassign memory addresses, you run the risk of the OS shutting down with Windows 2000

      So does anyone have another work around?

    would a floppy disk you can boot off help ? if so check this:

You can also get something like Smart BootManager:

	http://btmgr.webframe.org/

This is a media-agnostic boot program that fits on a floppy and willlet you boot almost any media on your machine.
    --  Stolen with pride from Rick Stevens......  :-)

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    tpotter at techmarin.com 

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