Installation problem on Compaq Notebook

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Thomas Klinger wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm completly new to Fedora/Redhat and used former SuSE Prof. So hi there.
>:)
>
>Today I tried to install Fedora Core 1 tomy Compaq Presario Notebook, type
>is 919EA.
>The system freezes already at the language selection, the LED for the
>harddisk goes on and stays so. Even after a while no further choices could
>be done, system is dead.
>I already investigated the release notes and tried different switches to the
>kernel as well, without any success.
>I read that on the Sony Vaio in case of problems the options pci=off and
>ide1=<0xadress1>, <0xadress2> should be used, but where do I get these
>adresses from? Using just pci=off results to a kernel panic (of course).
>
>Any hints, tips and tricks appreciated, regards, Thomas
>
>
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Did you try going into the bios settings and turning off legacy USB 
support?  Had to do that on 2100 series Presario laptops.

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