Problems booting the install CD

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Mon Feb 7 22:07:50 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:04:26PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Monday, Feb 7th 2005 at 11:31 -0800, quoth Rick Stevens:
> 
> =>Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> I have had the same problem with Core1 and Core2. Now it's happening again
> =>> with Core3.
> =>> 
> =>> I have the following config:
> =>> 
> =>> Tyan K7 Thunder Dual processors Athlon MB with 3 SCSI drives and one IDE
> =>> drive used for backup.
> =>> 
> =>> Here's df:
> =>> 
> =>> 513 > df -v
> =>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> =>> /dev/sda3              22G   14G  7.4G  65% /
> =>> /dev/sda1              99M   17M   78M  18% /boot
> =>> /dev/hda1             3.7G  324M  3.2G  10% /f
> =>> /dev/hda2              70G   60G  6.6G  91% /g
> =>> /dev/sdc1             8.4G  6.6G  1.5G  83% /home
> =>> /dev/sdb1             8.4G  6.2G  1.8G  79% /home2
> =>> /dev/sdc2              26G  6.0G   19G  25% /h
> =>> none                  504M     0  504M   0% /dev/shm
> =>> /dev/sda6             9.9G  6.4G  3.1G  68% /usr
> =>> /dev/sda5            1011M  462M  499M  49% /var
> =>> 514 >
> =>> 
> =>> 
> =>> When I reboot with Install Disk 1, I get the splash screen giving me the
> =>> choice of the (normal graphic or text) (install or upgrage). I choose
> =>> either. I get a few lines saying tha vmlinuz is loading and then the whole
> =>> process just stops dead. I am vershtumped.
> =>> 
> =>> Can someone please advise what to do or what additional info I need to
> =>> provide?
> =>
> =>Uh, try adding "noapic" to the boot command.  Dual Athlons sometimes
> =>need that.
> 
> Good shot but no dice. It hangs exactly the same way. 
> 
> I am now officially open to a new suggestion. :-)
> 
You don't say but in the install process it seems you don't get the
message that the SCSI driver is being installed. If that is not
happening I would guess the the fedora installer cannot recognize your
SCSI controller. Which controller do you have?
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