install on SATA drive on ASUS A8n-VM CSM, nforce 430

[Edward Dekkers]

dondi_2006 wrote:
> Some extra info/question
> 
> 
> 1) A guy on the nVidia forum told me to just try FC5t2, which includes
> the SATA driver. What do you think? I'd rather use FC4, simply because
> I already have those CD-roms and a slow internet connection. Isn't it
> possible to pass that driver to anaconda on a floppy? How?
> 
> Above all, how and why could FC5 solve the first problem:
> 
>> 1) When I boot from the first CD of Fedora Core 4 x86_64 I get:
>>    initial text screen (the one where you can give boot options)
>>    displayed perfectly. all following screen (do or skip mediacheck,
>>    etc...) all messed up. By this I mean (text) image is very stable,
>>    but every 2/3 lines of characters the columns are shifted, so I see
>>    a bunch of disaligned blue or red rectangles.
> 
> For the record, I've managed by trial and error to run mediacheck, and I
> see (written many times on the screen in fixed positions) the 0..100%
> message appear and progress, so it *seems* the disc is OK. Only it cannot
> drive the monitor with the onboard video GeForce 6150 in any way.
> Nothing changes with "linux resolution=1280x768" or "linux lowres". What
> else can I try?
> 
> TIA,
> D.
> 
> 

Try installing in text mode?

Regards,
Ed.
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