cannot install fc7, fc6, or fc5 on new machine

[Jim Cornette]

Vicki and Dave Stevenson wrote:
> Unfortunately I didn't have much chance to work on this over the 
> weekend, but it was so encouraging to hear from all of you. Thanks 
> Chris, Andy, Stan, Jim and Willem for your suggestions.
> 
> I managed to update the BIOS (which was several revs old - ver 0502 to 
> ver 1001), and that seemed to be enough to get me past the sticking point:
>     running /sbin/loader
> 
> and the installation is proceeding. How lovely it feels to be asked what 
> language I speak!
> 

It's great that you can now at least start the installation.

Regarding AHCI, the wikipedia states the below excerpt. So depending on 
what vmware is capable of, you may have some challenges.

AHCI is fully supported in Microsoft Windows Vista and the Linux 
operating system from kernel 2.6.19. Older versions of Microsoft Windows 
require drivers written by the host bus adapter vendor in order to 
support AHCI.

Fedora 7 now is at the below levels for kernels, so it *should* work.

kernel-2.6.22.1-20.fc7
kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7

For CPU frequency, I would go with settings which match the CPU that you 
are using and the speed the memory is rated at.

Jim