John Best wrote:
Well,
Asus P4PE 2.6Ghz 512M Ram S3Virge PCI 4M Video 160 G IDE (2 80 g partitions for windows) 40 G IDE for Linux NO SATA attachments
Currently running Windows XP and Redhat 9 off of separate hard disks...
I ran through the boot sequence again for installation of FC2 off of the cd
text portion of the boot works fine
Get to /sbin/loader
All is well. Blue screen with Fedora Core displayed.
Get popup on USB driver install Get Popup on Sata_Promise driver install
Thats it... Hang. After about 1 minute screen fills with funny characters and hard reset required to clear
I also tried the boot disk recommended for the P4P800 motherboard issue. Seems to get to the same spot in the boot sequence before hanging in the same way...
I have also tried several parameters on the boot (probably Including some that do not exist 8^) ) nofb nousb nosata noprobe
At this point I would suspect a problem with the SATA driver/subsystem as that is the last message/screen I get.. Not sure what comes after that point in the normal load sequence.
Thanks for the help.
John Best
John, I think you may be right in the SATA analysis, but because you also suspected the video card before, have you actually tried doing a text install? Sorry , if I missed it if you already mentioned you tried it.
Regards, Ed.
