Problems booting the install CD
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Mon Feb 7 22:07:50 UTC 2005
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Monday, Feb 7th 2005 at 11:31 -0800, quoth Rick Stevens:
>
> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> I have had the same problem with Core1 and Core2. Now it's happening again
> =>> with Core3.
> =>>
> =>> I have the following config:
> =>>
> =>> Tyan K7 Thunder Dual processors Athlon MB with 3 SCSI drives and one IDE
> =>> drive used for backup.
> =>>
> =>> Here's df:
> =>>
> =>> 513 > df -v
> =>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> =>> /dev/sda3 22G 14G 7.4G 65% /
> =>> /dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
> =>> /dev/hda1 3.7G 324M 3.2G 10% /f
> =>> /dev/hda2 70G 60G 6.6G 91% /g
> =>> /dev/sdc1 8.4G 6.6G 1.5G 83% /home
> =>> /dev/sdb1 8.4G 6.2G 1.8G 79% /home2
> =>> /dev/sdc2 26G 6.0G 19G 25% /h
> =>> none 504M 0 504M 0% /dev/shm
> =>> /dev/sda6 9.9G 6.4G 3.1G 68% /usr
> =>> /dev/sda5 1011M 462M 499M 49% /var
> =>> 514 >
> =>>
> =>>
> =>> When I reboot with Install Disk 1, I get the splash screen giving me the
> =>> choice of the (normal graphic or text) (install or upgrage). I choose
> =>> either. I get a few lines saying tha vmlinuz is loading and then the whole
> =>> process just stops dead. I am vershtumped.
> =>>
> =>> Can someone please advise what to do or what additional info I need to
> =>> provide?
> =>
> =>Uh, try adding "noapic" to the boot command. Dual Athlons sometimes
> =>need that.
>
> Good shot but no dice. It hangs exactly the same way.
>
> I am now officially open to a new suggestion. :-)
>
You don't say but in the install process it seems you don't get the
message that the SCSI driver is being installed. If that is not
happening I would guess the the fedora installer cannot recognize your
SCSI controller. Which controller do you have?
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