Come to think of it, these are CompUSA shrink wrapped CD-Rs (the kind
you pick up out of a bin on the floor) that were rated at 48x. Maybe
that was my goof.
Thanks a lot.
Bob
Mike Hockings wrote:
From my small experience RH/Fedora seems to be sensitive to the CD and
CD drive "goodness" (for lack of a beter technical term :-).
I've gotten the best results by burning the CD-R's at or below their
rated write speed.
Mike
On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 23:50, Robert L Cochran wrote:
It boots Windows XP just fine and without a long wait. In fact, there
has been slight improvement in boot timings since adding an ATI Radeon
7500 PCI video card and then updating it to the latest ATI driver version.
The CDRW drive is an TDK CDRW 4800B. When the Fedora Core 1 CD #1 is put
in this drive, and you start Windows Explorer, and click on the drive
letter for this drive, the hard drive activity light goes on and never
turns off and the hourglass icon goes on and never disappears. There is
no way to get this to stop short of pressing the CD eject button on the
CD drive.
When the Fedora Core 1 CD #3 is put in the drive, repeating the process
described above, the same thing happens and then after about 60 seconds
the Windows Explorer right-side pane fills with the contents of the CD
root directory. You can click on the subfolders and see their contents
with no problem.
The difference between these two CD's (besides the fact that one is
bootable) is that CD #1 was recorded using cdrecord with speed=52 and CD
#3 was recorded using cdrecord with speed=36. As I say below all CD's
have passed mediacheck.
However perhaps CD #1 is still bad, so I've burned a new CD #1 using
cdrecord at speed=8.
I'll try your other suggestions. I thought both acpi and DMA are off by
default in Fedora Core? I'll check for APIC options in the BIOS.
Thanks a lot for your time, effort, and help.
Bob
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Robert L Cochran um 07:16:
Hello,
I'm installing Fedora from installation CD's on an eMachines eMonster
1000. This machine is running Microsoft Windows XP. The goal is to dual
boot XP and Fedora. I added a second hard drive onto which Fedora will
be installed. Pentium III, 1 Ghz system. The motherboard is an Anaheim,
either the 2, 2A, or 3 -- I think probably the Anaheim-3 but can't be
sure. The graphics card is an ATI Radeon PCI 7500.
All the installation CDs passed the media checking.
Good.
When I try to boot from CD #1 to start the install, the hard drive light
goes on for a long time. Then the line
ISOLINUX...
shows up and remains there with no other monitor activity for more than
60 seconds.
Sometimes, the ISOLINUX... line is blanked out and the system boots
Windows XP.
Sometimes, the ISOLINUX... is replaced with the graphical Fedora Core
splash and the familiar boot: prompt.
If I then press <enter> to start the default install, or type
linux acpi=on
the hard drive light will go on, and the installer will load very
slowly. That is, vmlinuz and initrd will load with glacial slowness. So
does everything after that. I will come to the screen where I'm offered
a media check. I skip that. Progress continues with extreme slowness,
always accompanied by a brightly lit hard drive light. In fact the CD/RW
light doesn't seem to come on as often as it should given this is a CD
install.
If you directly boot Windows XP all is fast? Your describtion sounds to
me like a hardware problem with the CD drive. So on WinXP it is usable
without any problem?
Maybe I need to pass
linux acpi=on hdc=ide-scsi?
For a start I would leave acpi call away and the ide-scsi call is only
needed when you want your CD/RW to use for CD burning. During install I
would leave that away. You can define that afterwards.
The BIOS doesn't seem to have a "Plug and Play OS" option. Under
advanced options one can select from "Win98/Win2000", "Win95", or
"Other". I tried booting under "Win98/Win2000" and "Other".
Other might be the correct and certainly means no plug 'n pray OS.
What could be causing these problems?
Hard to say. Maybe your machine needs special kernel parameters, even to
recognize full RAM size. Unfortunately I do not know your motherboard. I
recommend some other boot parameters like disabling acpi, disabling ide
dma. If you have a BIOS option for changing APIC try mode 1.1 instead of
1.4.
Thanks
Bob
Alexander
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