Need advice on install

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at livedatagroup.com
Wed Aug 8 17:31:16 UTC 2007


Ed Greshko wrote:
> Randy Ramsdell wrote:
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>> Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in several
>> years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it was
>> FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around it
>> and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find a way
>> to get it installed.
>>
>> So now it has been a year or so without being able to run Fedora/CentOS.
>> Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not Suse.
>>
>> Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board?
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> I think Asus makes more than one motherboard.  Can you be a bit more specific?
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Oops sorry. I put it in the previous post subject. It is an Asus p4p-800
deluxe.

>> Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard drives
>> either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda shows
>> the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you
>> know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see is a
>> single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array even
>> after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system
>> unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot.
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