FC4 Installation problem

[Scott N. Blackman]

Chris Stark wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:42 +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:
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>>akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:39:30PM +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:
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>>>>I am attempting to install FC4 on a new machine which just has WindowsXP 
>>>>on it (I want to dual boot).  However, I don't get very far at all.  The 
>>>>DVD disk boots up and gives the usual questions,  but no FC.  At which I 
>>>>hit enter for graphical installation. It loads the one file and then 
>>>>initrd.img............. and then it reboots. I tried "linux noprobe" and 
>>>>"linux text" but with the exact same results. The disks are good as they 
>>>>have been used on different machines.  When I use "linux garbage" first, 
>>>>then "linux" or "linux text". I get a bit further then
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>>>>IRQ11: nobody cared ...
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>>>>My configuration:
>>>>ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe
>>>>2GB DDRII 533
>>>>Intel P4-531 3.0GHz PRESCOTT9(LGA775) processor
>>>>2 x 200GB (JB) WD S-ATA Hard drive
>>>>ATI Radeon X700 pro pci-express video
>>>>19" LG 1950SSN LCD monitor
>>>>LG GSA-4163B DVD+/-/RAM DUAL LAYER slave
>>>>PIONEER DVR-110 DVD+/-RW DUAL LAYER master
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>>>>Any ideas?
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>>>I have only one idea and it may not be correct. When putting Linux on
>>>a machine with a SATA drive I found I had to change the SATA drive
>>>configuration in the BIOS. I can't remember which option I chose but
>>>it would be easy to try a different option for SATA (my BIOS had
>>>three) and see what happens.
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>>The system ether has same problem or will not boot at all.  Depending 
>>BIOS settings
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>>Scott
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>Greetings,
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>When the initial installation boot screen comes up, try entering some
>gibberish then hit enter:  'foo <enter>'
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>Then hit enter again to boot normally.
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>If that doesn't work, reboot and try the gibberish line again, and enter
>'linux pci=nosort' the second time. I have a similar system that will
>only boot into Linux with the 'pci=nosort' line. If this works, you may
>want to add this to your grub.conf file.
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>Aloha,
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Still no joy.
Scott