Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
Dear list members,
I have just started finding out about Fedora Core 2 and 3, having used RH7.3 on my desktop for the last several years. However, the boot from the first install CD for either FC2 or 3 (iso image) hangs at the point where /sbin/loader is executed. The installation works fine on my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop at work. I have searched the archives, particularly with respect to nVidia cards (see below) but could not find any reports of errors such as what I experience. At the initial installation boot: prompt I have tried the following:
linux noprobe linux text noprobe
but the install process still hangs at the point indicated above.
Some background: my machine has the following specs:
Asus P2B motherboard w/ BIOS v.A06 Intel Pentium II-CEE 400MHz 128MB RAM nVidia Riva TNT2 graphics card w/ 32MB RAM Eizo L360 15" LCD monitor
HDD: 8GB Western Digital WDC AC28400R (primary IDE master) 4GB IBM-DCAA-34330 (primary IDE slave)
Other drives: CD-ROM (secondary IDE master) 1.44MB Floppy drive
Boot order option: Floppy, CD-ROM, HDD
Boot HDD detection settings (BIOS, Partition Magic, Windows and Linux have different ideas on the fictional geometry): both drives set LBA
At present I am running a dual-boot system with MS Windows 2000 Pro and Redhat Linux 7.3, booting from the Windows bootloader in the MBR of the IDE primary master (WDC) drive.
Partitions are as follows (done with Partition Magic 8 and disk druid, in a nasty combination that eventually worked out fine):
Disk: partition type size comments WDC: /boot ext3 50MB primary (where the linux boot loader lives) C: FAT32 ~8GB primary (active, with a boot image file for RH7.3)
IBM: /swap swap 500MB primary / ext3 2.6GB primary (900MB extended partition, divided into 3 logical partitions) /var ext3 300MB logical /home ext3 100MB logical D: FAt32 500MB logical (for use by both Windows and Linux)
My apologies for the long mail, it is my first post to the list, and I hope I have given enough relevant information to give knowledgable people here an idea of what might be going wrong. If a clean install of both Windows and Linux is the answer, so be it... Many thanks in advance,
Try other options. There's one to turn acpi off, which helps some people, one for DMA which helps others. I can't remember them all off the top off my head, but a quick browse through the archives should tell you, as this installer hanging problem has been asked quite a few times before.
Regards, Ed.
