can't install on asus a7n8x

[Ron Bellomo]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:30:21 -0700
Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:

> I rather optimistically bought an Asus a7n8x Deluxe
> motherboard (with the Nvidia nForce2 chipset), along with
> an Athlon XP 2600+, and tried to install Severn2.  Multiple
> times.  Each time it got partway into installing packages and
> then a kernel panic or freeze.
> 
> I had hoped it would work, since I read (mis-read?) that
> the a7n8x runs on RH 9 without patches.  But that doesn't
> seem to be the case either - each time I try to do a
> gcc boostrap (on a different partition than the one I
> tried to install Severn2 on), gcc fails in a different way.
> 
> My guess is some disk-related problem, such as DMA.
> (I have moved a jumper to disable SATA, so the kernel would
> not timeout for the non-existent drives.)  Any suggestions?
> 
> [This is a re-port.  The previous posting has spent almost
> to 24 hours awaiting "moderator approval", so I decided I
> needed to subscribe.]
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I have seen motherboards that get the RH installer to display kernel panics during the intial boot from CD when trying to install. On at least one system, turning off power management option in the BIOS allowed the installation to proceed. After installation, re-enabling the power management worked fine.

I don't know if this is the issue you are dealing with but it is something to try.
 Good luck!