Paul, Interesting suggestion, I'll take a look at the BIOS settings. Best, -- Tom Arnold, CISSP, ISSMP, CFS Partner PSC Expert services and system solutions for companies accepting or processing electronic payments PGP Fingerprint: 8BE4 B179 0E5D D141 AC96 A732 08F7 8E43 89AE 009F PGP Public Key Server: ldap://keyserver.pgp.com Direct: +1.408.228.0961 ex. 102 Mobile: +1.408.406.1758 Email: tom@xxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.paysw.com > From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:46:44 +0000 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Core 3 Install Problem > > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 21:36 -0800, Tom Arnold wrote: >> Thanks for the reply... I suspected the LVM and tried an install without the >> LVM's defined. The system now hangs while attempting to write to the disks >> or fails with an exception. I'm going to try and dig out the error. >> >> It's almost like the disks are write protected. I can see them in the CMOS, >> and they appear in Anaconda... Any thoughts on what to try next? > > Some machines intended to be run as servers have a BIOS option for "OS > installation mode" (I've seen this on a Dell anyway). I've no idea what > this mode is for, but perhaps it's stopping you writing changes to the > partition table or something like that because you're not in "OS > installation mode"? > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
