I'm trying to do a fresh install of Fedora core 1 on a system that is currently running RHL 7.1 and I get a hard hang. I think it is still loading modules, but I'm not sure. It passes mediacheck, I've tried noapic and nousb with no luck. If I use noprobe it still hangs at the same place. The last few lines that show up if I do alt-F4 right after it gets by the mediacheck are: <4> raid5: using function pIII_sse (2011.200 MB/sec) <6> md: raid4 personality registerd as nr 4 <6> Journalled Block Device driver loaded <6> LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded The SCSI driver apparently loads up no problem as it shows hard drives, CD-ROM, etc. I have IDE devices disabled in the BIOS since I have none of those - it's an all SCSI system. The motherboard - Tyan S2567U3AN Thunder HE-SL dual CPU with ServerWorks chipset - has an on-board LSI Logic 53C1010-33 dual channel SCSI adapter. I also have an LSI Logic 64-bit PCI dual channel SCSI adapter having a 53C1010-66 chip. The SCSI driver is the sym53C8xx and is probably the same version I'm currently running in my 7.1 installation since it has the 2.4.20-24.7 kernel. I did catch a message in the boot-up once about "Unsupported serverworks chipset" but that is well before the hang. I have tried booting from the floppys with the same result. I even burned a CD with the boot image on it and tried using that to boot from, same result. Then I tried using the boot image from the latest test build, but it seems to have a version conflict with the core 1 i386 CD. I can boot the RHL 7.3 CD, but 8.0 also hangs. I haven't tried RHL 9. If anyone is able to help me get the install past this point, or to find more information about why it hangs, I would really appreciate it. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
