On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:28 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:09 -0600, Stanton Finley wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > > > Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here. I had > > > a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set. > > > Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither > > > computer would "see" the boot disk. Thought, "oh, well." Needed a new > > > box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday. Burned fc-5 iso > > > disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is > > > present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any > > > changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot > > > from the install disk - > > Two things you may wish to consider... > > 1.) The CD drive itself may be borked and you may wish to test this with > another drive. > > 2.) My brand new Athlon 64 machine had kernel panics from every several > minutes to an hour or so. It would go BEEP! and reboot, usually at some > critical juncture. After several days the machine just died. I took it > back to the dealer and the power supply had crapped out. I'm thinking > that many machines have marginal power supplies installed to save a > buck. Once the new power supply was installed, the kernel panics stopped > cold. Low voltage may cause many of the problems everyone experiences. I > am not showing any burps in the barrel, the machine and all of it's > peripherals work without a hitch. I am happy. Ric > I had a similar issue with a machine that was running happily with FC4. Athalon 2400+ with 1GB ram. When I tried to install FC5 on it, it kept failing and flat refused to complete the install. Usually failing while formatting the drive. The only change I made was to replace a power supply and it then happily proceeded with the install. I concur that a power supply that is marginal can be cause for failure.
