problems for installing fedora 7 on a poweredge 1650

[Eric Doutreleau]

I m tryng to install fedora 7 on this beast and the installer is stuck
at early stage.

indeed i have at the screen
loading vmlinuz
loading initrd.img
Ready

and nothing happened after

i choose text or graphic but i got the same thing

i succeed install other server with the same CD

did someone already had this problem?

[Dr J Austin]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:10 +0200, Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> I m tryng to install fedora 7 on this beast and the installer is stuck
> at early stage.
>
> indeed i have at the screen
> loading vmlinuz
> loading initrd.img
> Ready
>
> and nothing happened after
>
> i choose text or graphic but i got the same thing
>
> i succeed install other server with the same CD
>
> did someone already had this problem?

Hi

I replicate a previous reply below
Hope it helps

Bet you have an Asus motherboard !!

I had to do this on one of my machines !

Thanks to LarryT for the info below !!!!

I chose option 2 !!!!!!!!!!!

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Big problem with F7 install on Asus A7V600-X motherboard
Sata drives cause booting to stop just after loading vmlinuz and initrd
the machine freezes with the following message !
Ready
Solution 1 - Not Nice
There is a way to install Fedora 7 on ASUS-A7V600(-X) (maybe other)
boards with
any sata drives connected. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Unplug any sata drives. When the kernel is loading, plug in (hotplug)
the drive.
Then everything is working. ;o)

Solution 2
OKAY : found I very cute work around :
booting usb stick after dd the diskboot file !
This makes no sense to me !!!!!!
but it works and the fun may begin right now
_________________________
LarryT, GParted-livecd maintainer
Main site : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ 
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Therefore
mount -o loop F-7-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/zip
cd /mnt/zip/images
dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdxxxx
#########################

On my machine I had to do the above and
Select USB Zip on Asus board!!
Boot up past the problem and then insert the DVD
It Works!!!!

john

[Langdon Stevenson]

Eric Doutreleau wrote:
> I m tryng to install fedora 7 on this beast and the installer is stuck
> at early stage.
>
> indeed i have at the screen
> loading vmlinuz
> loading initrd.img
> Ready
>
> and nothing happened after
>
> i choose text or graphic but i got the same thing
>
> i succeed install other server with the same CD
>
> did someone already had this problem?

One thing worth checking with Dell PowerEdge equipment is that the SCSI 
controllers firmware is up to date.  I had this exact same issue with a 
PE2300 recently.  Upgrading the firmware, as well as manually loading 
the required megaraid driver worked for that machine.

I don't remember off hand what controller card the 1650 has in it, but 
if it is an older PERC card then you have to coax it a bit.  I made some 
posts over the last two weeks about PERC cards and Dell hardware, so 
have a look at them if you still have a problem.

Regards,
Langdon