[Asus p5a] impossible to install fedora-core

[Hervaen]

Le lun 23/02/2004 à 02:43, Jeff Ratliff a écrit :

Thanks for your reply

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hervaen" <hervaen at free.fr>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:33 PM
> Subject: [Asus p5a] impossible to install fedora-core
> 
> > The hardware is;
> >
> > Motherboard; Asus P5A ATX socket 7
> > CPU; K6 2 amd 500 mhz
> > DD ide udma 13 Go
> > graphic card; Woodoo 3000 AGP
> > sound card; sound blaster 16pci
> >
> I have this motherboard (BIOS revision 1007)
> K6-3 400 Mhz
> Quantum 20 Gig HD
> NVIDIA TNT2 model 64 graphics
> Soundblaster PCI 512
> 
> So far it has worked flawlessly. Graphical install worked fine, no crashes
> in 2 months.
> 
> > After probing graphic card, monitor and mouse  the screen is all black and
> > stop, impossible to have the install screen
> >
> > sometimes, (1 time on 20) I can install fedora but after the reboot I have
> a
> > kernel panic
> >
> > It seems that the problem comes from udma and I have to change something
> in
> > Bios but after surfing on the web since several days I don't find anything
> 
> I just rebooted my system and went into the BIOS and chose "set BIOS
> defaults" and although my USB stuff no longer worked, the system still
> booted fine (I'm running 2.5.22-1.2149.nptl kernel). This hard drive runs in
> UDMA mode without any problems.
> 
> You could try disabling DMA mode for the hard drive in the BIOS, and seeing
> if that stops the kernel panic.


> 
> I'd also pull the sound card and see if that helps. I'd also suspect the
> video card. Do you have another to swap in to test?

Yes

>  Have you tried a text
> mode install rather than the graphical install?

Yes, with the same result, I also test with a command line at boot
"linux nodma ", default, expert, screen=
> 
> Sorry if this didn't help much, but at least you know one person is running
> this motherboard without problems.

Thanks
>