I assembled a new PC to install Fedora 14. Boot order is USB, CD/DVD drive, and finally HDD. When I plug the Fedora 14 CD I get the countdown screen with blue background and then some gibberish text fills the screen. From what I can tell it is trying to write to the HDD and failing. Tried a couple of other distro CDs / DVDs with same issue. The only logical thing I can think of is to format the HDD. Can you suggest if there are any free tools to format the disk. I am guessing it will install Fedora 14 when it has been formatted. The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB. I am surprised the Fedora CD does not prompt me to format the HDD like Windows CDs usually do. Any pointers towards a solution would help. Thanks,Braja
On 05/11/2011 08:34:24 PM, Braja Kishore Chattaraj wrote:
I assembled a new PC to install Fedora 14. Boot order is USB, CD/DVD drive, and finally HDD. When I plug the Fedora 14 CD I get the countdown screen with blue background and then some gibberish text fills the screen.
Is the "countdown screen" the BIOS?
First thing I'd try is to make the CD first in the boot priority. Until you read from the CD (assuming, if course that your new PC is otherwise working) Fedora is not going to talk to you. You won't get to formatting until you get to partitioning the drive.
If you get the same result with the CD as first boot priority, then suspect your hardware.