install failure

[David Hoffman]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:56:11 -0500, Brad Reed
<brad at informationpathways.com> wrote:
> I am new to fedora and this list. I was running Suse on this system and
> sucessfully loaded the debian kernel, but wanted to try fedora. So I know
> the system can run Linux. It is an older gateway with a 350 Mhz Pentium II,
> one 10GB drive, one 80GB drive, 256MB of RAM. I am loading from CD and
> tested with md5sum and did a mediatest upon boot. I tried various boot
> options including:
> linux nofb
> noprobe
> mem=256MB
> 

> messages on cdrom_start_read
> ide timer expiring, etc.
> 

Try this:
linux nocddma