Fedora Core 2 installation on Asus Ap120-E1

[Badli Al Rashid]

hai,

when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
screen and im back to the POST.

i did try to pass the "linux text" and "linux nofb" parameters, but its
still not able to boot into the graphical or text installation.

I did the memtest86 as well but no errors shows up!
My hardware configuration (Actually its an Asus AP120-E1):-

P4 2.8 B
Transend 512 DDR333
80GB WDJB HD
Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
And an Asus Radeon 7000

Does anyone has some suggestion or work around (highly appreciated)so i
can install fc2, i dont have FC1 to test with :( oh well back to search
again. Thanks!

[Alexander Apprich]

Badli Al Rashid wrote:
> hai,
>
> when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> screen and im back to the POST.
>
> i did try to pass the "linux text" and "linux nofb" parameters, but its
> still not able to boot into the graphical or text installation.
>
> I did the memtest86 as well but no errors shows up!
> My hardware configuration (Actually its an Asus AP120-E1):-
>
> P4 2.8 B
> Transend 512 DDR333
> 80GB WDJB HD
> Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
> And an Asus Radeon 7000
>
> Does anyone has some suggestion or work around (highly appreciated)so i
> can install fc2, i dont have FC1 to test with :( oh well back to search
> again. Thanks!

Try booting off the CD using

linux noacpi

or linux acpi=off

Hth.

Alex

[Edward Dekkers]

Badli Al Rashid wrote:
> hai,
>
> when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> screen and im back to the POST.
>
> i did try to pass the "linux text" and "linux nofb" parameters, but its
> still not able to boot into the graphical or text installation.
>
> I did the memtest86 as well but no errors shows up!
> My hardware configuration (Actually its an Asus AP120-E1):-
>
> P4 2.8 B
> Transend 512 DDR333
> 80GB WDJB HD
> Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
> And an Asus Radeon 7000
>
> Does anyone has some suggestion or work around (highly appreciated)so i
> can install fc2, i dont have FC1 to test with :( oh well back to search
> again. Thanks!

You might want to update your motherboard BIOS. This isn't the first 
time we've heard of these sorts of problems with ASUS mainboards.

Regards,
Ed.

[Pybe]

This might help as well: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installreboot

On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:54:26 +0800, Edward  wrote:
> Badli Al Rashid wrote:
> > hai,
> >
> > when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> > by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> > screen and im back to the POST.
> >
> > i did try to pass the "linux text" and "linux nofb" parameters, but its
> > still not able to boot into the graphical or text installation.
> >
> > I did the memtest86 as well but no errors shows up!
> > My hardware configuration (Actually its an Asus AP120-E1):-
> >
> > P4 2.8 B
> > Transend 512 DDR333
> > 80GB WDJB HD
> > Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
> > And an Asus Radeon 7000
> >
> > Does anyone has some suggestion or work around (highly appreciated)so i
> > can install fc2, i dont have FC1 to test with :( oh well back to search
> > again. Thanks!
>
> You might want to update your motherboard BIOS. This isn't the first
> time we've heard of these sorts of problems with ASUS mainboards.
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
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[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 06.09.2004 schrieb Badli Al Rashid um 14:16:
> when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> screen and im back to the POST.
> Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)

Every weekend Lisa is so kind and posts here on the list the "problems
and answer" announcement. It points to

http://www.peepingdarklord.com/fedoralist/

where you find

"Asus P4P800 Series motherboard"

Please go that road.

Alexander

Fedora Core 2 installation on Asus Ap120-E1 [solved]

[Badli Al Rashid]

Hai,

thanks for the response, i had successfully installed fc2 on the 
computer that i mention. just upgraded the to a scsi harddrive i had 
lying aound :).
btw i already had the latest bios installed.

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 06.09.2004 schrieb Badli Al Rashid um 14:16:
> > when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> > by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> > screen and im back to the POST.
> > Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
>
> Every weekend Lisa is so kind and posts here on the list the "problems
> and answer" announcement. It points to
>
> http://www.peepingdarklord.com/fedoralist/
>
> where you find
>
> "Asus P4P800 Series motherboard"
>
> Please go that road.
>
> Alexander

[Clint Harshaw]

Badli Al Rashid wrote:
> hai,
>
> when i tried to install FC2 on Asus AP120-E1, the computer just restarted
> by its self! it does the vmlinuz and initrd.img, then it has a blank
> screen and im back to the POST.
>
> i did try to pass the "linux text" and "linux nofb" parameters, but its
> still not able to boot into the graphical or text installation.
>
> I did the memtest86 as well but no errors shows up!
> My hardware configuration (Actually its an Asus AP120-E1):-
>
> P4 2.8 B
> Transend 512 DDR333
> 80GB WDJB HD
> Asus P4P800S-E Rev 1.01 BIOS 1004 (motherboard)
> And an Asus Radeon 7000
>
> Does anyone has some suggestion or work around (highly appreciated)so i
> can install fc2, i dont have FC1 to test with :( oh well back to search
> again. Thanks!

Is your BIOS updated? I have a different ASUS mobo, and my installation 
problems evaporated once I updated the BIOS.

HTH,
Clint