Fedora Core 2 installation on Asus Ap120-E1

[Edward]

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.