You might try several of the install flags - i.e. ide=nodma, nousb, or something similar. Personally, I've had nothing but trouble with AIC7XXX controllers. I believe this is the same controller used on the 440GX motherboards. I'm stuck at RH7.2 on the boxes with those motherboards. Good luck! Mike. On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 16:37, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Does anyone have any idea how I can debug this problem? I can boot from > other CDs, but FC2 just stops dead. Any ideas? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:04:49 -0400 (EDT) > From: Steven W. Orr <steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Can't boot from Core 2 CD (HELP!) > > On Sunday, Aug 15th 2004 at 17:32 -0400, quoth Steven W. Orr: > > =>I rebooted by machine with Disk1 of Core2 in the CDROM. The system finds the > =>cd and gives me the LILO splash screen. I tried hitting return for the > =>graphical boot but it just hangs. I also tried "linus text" and that also > =>hangs. > => > =>My system is a scsi aic7xxx controller with 3 scsi disks, 1 ide drive. I have > =>2 athlon 1600s. > => > =>I did verify that the images I burned my cds with are the correct checksums. > => > =>I have no clue what do next. Can someone help? > => > =>TIA > > If this helps, here's my mount table: > > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/hda1 on /f type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda2 on /g type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sdc1 on /home type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /home2 type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sdc2 on /h type ext3 (rw) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/sda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) > > I'm booting SCSI and the IDE drive is just used for backup. > > I'm totally stuck here. :-( > > -- > Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. > happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 > Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 > individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? > steveo at syslang.net >
