Re: newbie 7.3 install hangs at partition check

[Jim_Wu cymer com]

Have you try >linux ide=nodma ?





"Damon Bowman" <damon_bowman yahoo com>@redhat.com on 10/01/2002 08:57:41
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Trying to install RH  7.3 from downloaded ISO cd images.

My computer boots  from the CD ok, then I get the install screen that says
I can press Enter to  launch the install in GUI mode.? When I press enter,
a lot of text comes up  describing my IDE drives, etc.? I have two IDE hard
drives on one channel,  and on the other channel I have one CD-R (that the
linux CD is booting from) and  one CD-RW.? All of these devices appear to
be properly recognized as far as  I can tell.

My problem is that  the install gets to the part where it is checking the
partitions on hda, and it  hangs there with blinking cursor.? At first I
thought maybe this process  just takes a while, but I have let it sit like
this for several hours without  any progress beyone this point.

I've also tried  running "linux noprobe" as well as several of the other
options I have seen in  the manual and on-line.? All seem to have the same
result.

My primary hard  drive is an 8 GB IBM drive that came with my computer,
which is a Dell P2-300  that is several years old.? Both of the hard drives
have a single NTFS  partition that I want Linux to overwrite.? This will
not be a dual-boot  machine - it will be Linux only.

I'm not sure what to  try next - any suggestions are welcome.? Left to my
own methods, I guess I  would try removing the primary hard drive and
making the secondary drive the  primary and see what happens.? Both of
these drives will partition and  format properly under Windows, and they
were working fine under Windows  2000.

Any  ideas?