Chris Stark wrote:
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:42 +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:
akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:39:30PM +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:
I am attempting to install FC4 on a new machine which just has WindowsXP
on it (I want to dual boot). However, I don't get very far at all. The
DVD disk boots up and gives the usual questions, but no FC. At which I
hit enter for graphical installation. It loads the one file and then
initrd.img............. and then it reboots. I tried "linux noprobe" and
"linux text" but with the exact same results. The disks are good as they
have been used on different machines. When I use "linux garbage" first,
then "linux" or "linux text". I get a bit further then
IRQ11: nobody cared ...
My configuration:
ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe
2GB DDRII 533
Intel P4-531 3.0GHz PRESCOTT9(LGA775) processor
2 x 200GB (JB) WD S-ATA Hard drive
ATI Radeon X700 pro pci-express video
19" LG 1950SSN LCD monitor
LG GSA-4163B DVD+/-/RAM DUAL LAYER slave
PIONEER DVR-110 DVD+/-RW DUAL LAYER master
Any ideas?
I have only one idea and it may not be correct. When putting Linux on
a machine with a SATA drive I found I had to change the SATA drive
configuration in the BIOS. I can't remember which option I chose but
it would be easy to try a different option for SATA (my BIOS had
three) and see what happens.
The system ether has same problem or will not boot at all. Depending
BIOS settings
Scott
Greetings,
When the initial installation boot screen comes up, try entering some
gibberish then hit enter: 'foo <enter>'
Then hit enter again to boot normally.
If that doesn't work, reboot and try the gibberish line again, and enter
'linux pci=nosort' the second time. I have a similar system that will
only boot into Linux with the 'pci=nosort' line. If this works, you may
want to add this to your grub.conf file.
Aloha,
Still no joy.
Scott
