Re: Help needed installing FC5 on Asus P5LD2-VM + SATA II hdd

[Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phineas Fung writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just bought:
>
> Intel 930
> Asus P5LD2-VM
> Maxtor SATA-II 80GB
>
> When I tried to install FC5 x86_64 version, it runs ok till it started to 
> do real file copying (i.e. disk partition, package selections are all ok).
> Immediately after doing file copying, it complained about "input/output 
> error when writing to /dev/sda", then it threw an exception, and machine 
> frozen.
>
> In BIOS, there is no choice but to use SATA as IDE (3rd channel, primary), 
> and at POST, I can see the hard-drive mapped as 3rd IDE primary.
>
> P.S. the whole machine was tested ok at computer shop running Windows XP
>
> Already searched Asus web site and FC5 web site, seems no one having 
> similar problem as mine.
>
> Any hints or suggestions or pointers will be highly appreciated.

Try installing FC4 on this hardware.

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