I appreciate David's comments, as it did seem reasonable given the symptoms, but I am open to other suggestions concerning my kernel crash on the first install disk. Thanks, Brad -----Original Message----- From: David Hoffman [mailto:dhoffman2004@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:59 AM To: brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: install failure On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:56:11 -0500, Brad Reed <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am new to fedora and this list. I was running Suse on this system and > sucessfully loaded the debian kernel, but wanted to try fedora. So I know > the system can run Linux. It is an older gateway with a 350 Mhz Pentium II, > one 10GB drive, one 80GB drive, 256MB of RAM. I am loading from CD and > tested with md5sum and did a mediatest upon boot. I tried various boot > options including: > linux nofb > noprobe > mem=256MB > > messages on cdrom_start_read > ide timer expiring, etc. > Try this: linux nocddma
