I have been trying without success to install FC2 (and other distros) on a new system that came pre-installed with XP. The FC install hangs with a blinking cursor upon first boot after enabling swap space before a login prompt or welcome screen. Grub was installed on the MBR. XP boots and runs fine. The system: P4 3GHz 800 FSB, Gigabyte 8i K 1100, 1 GB dual channel DDR, Intel 875P chipset Matrox Millenium G550, Texas Instruments OHCI i333 1394 host controller Intel 82801EB ultra ata controller, 82801ER raid controller (not running RAID) ICH5R sata controller Intel pro/100 ve network adapter, M-Audio Delta 1010 Disks: Seagate 120 GB ST3120022A, West. Digital Raptor 740GD SATA 74 GB Plextor dvdr px-708a IDE 0 Master None IDE 0 Slave ST3120022A (system disk for both Linux & XP) IDE 1 Master None IDE 1 Slave Plextor DVDR PX-78 IDE 2 Master None IDE 3 Master WDC WD740GD-FLA0 (intended as an audio disk, one 74 GB partition) CPU hyper threading is enabled in the bios. An attempted install of FC1 2.4.22-1.2115 fails similarly after loading the kernel modules and before init 5. Knoppix 3.4 boots ok but does not see or mount the raptor sata disk, and I cannot mount it manually. Suse 9.1 Live cd fails on boot with a fatal error trying to insert the aic79xx driver and failed services in run level 5. I am trying to determine the source of the problem -- X, SATA, one of the other mobo controllers, the display driver or something else I'm missing. I've tried booting with all of the acpi options and tried installing FC2 with the firewire controller disabled in the bios. memtest86 passes after a couple of hours. The install logs do not show any failures. libata 1.02 and ata_piix 1.02 load. I can write to the raptor disk (sda1). In googling this hw before obtaining this system I found 2 references to the mobo and many references to the 875p, ICHR, hyperthreading and the 36 GB (but not my 76 GB))raptor disks on working Linux systems. ------------ At this point I'm over my head trying to troubleshoot. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Is anyone using similar hw? If I have hw compatibility issues is it worth compiling a newer or custom kernel, or trying Mandrake 10 or Gentoo? I would prefer to run FC (eventually with planetccrma rpms for 2.6), but after a week with no progress I'm desperate to get ANY Linux distro installed. Thanks in advance for any help, Allan Schindler -------------- In case these offer any clues I am missing, here is lscpi and /proc/cpuinfo: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5R) SATA (cc=RAID) (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G550 AGP (rev 01) 02:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: IC Ensemble Inc ICE1712 [Envy24] (rev 02) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 02) 02:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) ------ processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping : 9 cpu MHz : 3014.414 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid bogomips : 5980.16
