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Hi everyone. I’ve been having endless headaches with the FC5
installation. I’ve managed to get most of them sorted but I’m now
really stumped. Well I was having the common problem of the install hanging
at the X Server screen with a black background and ‘X’ Cursor. I
used the ‘linux nodmraid’ at the boot prompt and it successfully
got me to the GUI. However, I am trying to install on a RAID 0 partition and as
you can see, if I use ‘nodmraid’ I can’t activate my RAID
partition for the installer to see. I’m at a loss for what to do I can’t
see any other option as dmraid would be needed to actually show RAID files but
at the same time I need to get to the GUI Installer! Here are a few things to note: Text install DOES NOT WORK It has the same problem as the
GUI install, it works only if I use ‘nodmraid’. I have tried the ‘linux vesa’ command which is a
common fix to the black screen and x cursor problem. However, If I boot with
this command, when X server starts up my monitor gives a ‘No Signal’
message. I am installing the x86_64 release of FC5 and I DO have a
64-bit processor. All 6 discs of my installation media have been SHA1SUM
verified and are all complete. I burned the media first as a simulation at the slowest
speed possible on my drive (8x 1,200kb/s) and then I used nero to verify the
data. Passes all tests. With DMA turned off (with the ide=nodma command) the CD
media all pass the mediacheck test. I have been trying to do a Hard Drive install but can burn
the discs if this will cause complications. I have tried running the dmraid –v –ay command
as soon as the GUI appears, but this does not do anything. I have two RAID 0 Arrays, Array 1 is comprised of two
identical 160GB Seagate SATA drives, Array 2 is comprised of three identical
40GB Seagate IDE/ATA Drives. I do not wish to install anything on the SATA RAID
array as it is for storage only, I wish to install fedora core on the IDE/ATA
Array. Both of these Arrays work fine under Windows XP Professional so I know
my Arrays are fine. My RAID is configured by the onboard nForce 4 RAID
controller also known as software or fake RAID. I have used the ‘dmraid –v –ay’
command and then used ‘ls /dev/mapper/’ to verify my drives were
all there, linux correctly indentifies them with this command. Here are my system specs: Processor: AMD Opteron 148 – Venus Core (64-Bit
Processor) RAM: 1024MB PC3200 DDR RAM Video Card: ATI RADEON x800GTO2 Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4-F (nForce 4 Chipset) SATA Hard Drive: 2x Seagate Barracuda 160GB (RAID 0 Array 1) ATA Hard Drive: 3x Seagate 40GB (RAID 0 Array 2) Monitor: Acer 19” Widescreen LCD (1440x900 Native Res) I posted a few threads on Fedora Forums which might a give a
bit more insight into the problem: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107352 and http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=107567 I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me, I’ve
posted on fedora forums but no one was able to help me sort it out. I have also
tried the fedora IRC community who also could not help me. Thank you for your
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