Hi everyone.
I’ve been having endless headaches with the FC5
installation. I’ve managed to get most of them sorted but I’m now
really stumped.
Well I was having the common problem of the install hanging
at the X Server screen with a black background and ‘X’ Cursor. I
used the ‘linux nodmraid’ at the boot prompt and it successfully
got me to the GUI. However, I am trying to install on a RAID 0 partition and as
you can see, if I use ‘nodmraid’ I can’t activate my RAID
partition for the installer to see. I’m at a loss for what to do I can’t
see any other option as dmraid would be needed to actually show RAID files but
at the same time I need to get to the GUI Installer!
Here are a few things to note:
Text install DOES NOT WORK It has the same problem as the
GUI install, it works only if I use ‘nodmraid’.
I have tried the ‘linux vesa’ command which is a
common fix to the black screen and x cursor problem. However, If I boot with
this command, when X server starts up my monitor gives a ‘No Signal’
message.
I am installing the x86_64 release of FC5 and I DO have a
64-bit processor.
All 6 discs of my installation media have been SHA1SUM
verified and are all complete.
I burned the media first as a simulation at the slowest
speed possible on my drive (8x 1,200kb/s) and then I used nero to verify the
data. Passes all tests.
With DMA turned off (with the ide=nodma command) the CD
media all pass the mediacheck test.
I have been trying to do a Hard Drive install but can burn
the discs if this will cause complications.
I have tried running the dmraid –v –ay command
as soon as the GUI appears, but this does not do anything.
I have two RAID 0 Arrays, Array 1 is comprised of two
identical 160GB Seagate SATA drives, Array 2 is comprised of three identical
40GB Seagate IDE/ATA Drives. I do not wish to install anything on the SATA RAID
array as it is for storage only, I wish to install fedora core on the IDE/ATA
Array. Both of these Arrays work fine under Windows XP Professional so I know
my Arrays are fine.
My RAID is configured by the onboard nForce 4 RAID
controller also known as software or fake RAID.
I have used the ‘dmraid –v –ay’
command and then used ‘ls /dev/mapper/’ to verify my drives were
all there, linux correctly indentifies them with this command.
Here are my system specs:
Processor: AMD Opteron 148 – Venus Core (64-Bit
Processor)
RAM: 1024MB PC3200 DDR RAM
Video Card: ATI RADEON x800GTO2
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4-F (nForce 4 Chipset)
SATA Hard Drive: 2x Seagate Barracuda 160GB (RAID 0 Array 1)
ATA Hard Drive: 3x Seagate 40GB (RAID 0 Array 2)
Monitor: Acer 19” Widescreen LCD (1440x900 Native Res)
I posted a few threads on Fedora Forums which might a give a
bit more insight into the problem:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107352
and
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107567
I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me, I’ve
posted on fedora forums but no one was able to help me sort it out. I have also
tried the fedora IRC community who also could not help me. Thank you for your
time.