F7 locking up on first boot

[Karl Larsen]

R A Jon Hamelin wrote:
> I am trying to run F7 on an ASUS P4S800D-X motherboard with SIS 655FX 
> chipset. Installation goes OK, however when I reboot the system locks 
> up when trying to run First Boot. 
    This sounds like a real hardware problem. There is something on the 
motherboard that is not happy with the fedora setup. Did you setup 
Fedora in the graphic mode, not the text mode?

    Confusing because the DVD is being used to load the system...I 
wonder if somehow the DVD currupted some files? Having the same problem 
on both motherboards points to the DVD as the problem. Why you could not 
load the Live F7 CD is interesting. Tell us more about that.

    Interested because I will recieve a new motherboard on Thurday and 
sure hope Ferdora 7 will run on it.





> I sometimes receive an error message in regard to ATA2 not 
> initializing, sometimes the mouse and keyboard lock. The only device 
> attached to ATA2 is an LG HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H22N DVD burner. My 2 
> hard drives are SATA.
>
> I can access the OS via rescue mode on the DVD, can run X in chroot, 
> have checked the log files for Anaconda and can find no clue as to why 
> the system is locking up. It recognizes the DVD burner as ATA66, which 
> it is and confirms that it is on ATA2.
>
> I had the same problem installing F7 86_64 on an ASUS P5B-VM DO with 
> the same model DVD Burner. I finally succeeded in installing on this 
> mb by loading the Live CD into RAM and installing from there. This 
> tactic did not work for F7 i386, and the P4S800D-X, unfortunately.
>
> Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?  I thought that the 
> fact that this drive uses UDMA-4 rather than UDMA-2 may have been the 
> problem , so I reset the drive in BIOS to use UDMA-2, also without 
> success.
>
> The puzzling part of this is that I can install and run  ubuntu with 
> absolutely  no problems, and I dual-boot into XP with no problems
>
> I have been messing with this problem for over 2 weeks now and have 
> not found a resolution. Any help or suggestions would be greatly 
> appreciated as I would rather keep all of my setup in Fedora.
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>


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