Problem Installing Core 5

[jery_wang]

So, I am a new user. I am attempting to install core 5. The problem I am running into is
that after it probes my video and then starts X Windows for installation I get an X and
the system locks up. It does not go any farther. I am running dual opteron 246 with 4 gig
ram on an Supermicro H8DCE drive. Any help would be appreciated.


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[Gerry Tool]

mayadesign wrote:
>  So, I am a new user. I am attempting to install core 5. The problem I
> am running into is that after it probes my video and then starts X Windows for
> installation I get an X and the system locks up. It does not go any farther. I am running
> dual opteron 246 with 4 gig ram on an Supermicro H8DCE drive. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>  
>   
The lockup may be do to your graphics card or monitor.  Please specify.

[Timothy Murphy]

mayadesign wrote:

>  So, I am a new user. I am attempting to install core 5. The problem I
> am
>  running into is that after it probes my video and then starts X Windows
>  for installation I get an X and the system locks up. It does not go any
>  farther. I am running dual opteron 246 with 4 gig ram on an Supermicro
>  H8DCE drive. Any help would be appreciated. 
If it were me, I would install in text mode
(by answering "linux text" at the original boot prompt)
and try to sort out X afterwards.

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[jery_wang]

I was going to start a new thread, but my problem is similar. Hardware is a dual core AMD
64, gigabyte ga-k8n ultra-9, gigabyte ATi x800XL, 4 seagate 300Gbyte drives. I set up RAID
0+1. I'm using the FC-5-x86_64-DVD iso. The media check was fine.

Things go by on the screen quite quickly, but I did see both the sata_sil and sata_nv raid
drivers load. The installer finds and correctly identifies my video card. 

I've done the installation both with text and X. The result are similar. With X, you
get a screen and a cursor. With text, you get a solid blue screen. 

I think the hardware is OK. I installed both SUSE and Gentoo on it, but can't figure
out how to get the raid driver installed. I googled a bit and found Fedora has the driver
built in.


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