On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:00 +0100, Manuel Monteiro wrote: > Hi All, > > I tried to install FC7 from DVD but it stopped just after loading initrd.img > with the message 'Ready!'. > This also happens in text mode. > > I already used this DVD to install FC7 successfully on another PC. > > Any ideas about this? > > > Thanks, > > Manuel Monteiro > > > Hi Bet you have an Asus motherboard !! I had to do this on one of my machines ! Thanks to LarryT for the info below !!!! I chose option 2 !!!!!!!!!!! ############################################ Big problem with F7 install on Asus A7V600-X motherboard Sata drives cause booting to stop just after loading vmlinuz and initrd the machine freezes with the following message ! Ready Solution 1 - Not Nice There is a way to install Fedora 7 on ASUS-A7V600(-X) (maybe other) boards with any sata drives connected. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Unplug any sata drives. When the kernel is loading, plug in (hotplug) the drive. Then everything is working. ;o) Solution 2 OKAY : found I very cute work around : booting usb stick after dd the diskboot file ! This makes no sense to me !!!!!! but it works and the fun may begin right now _________________________ LarryT, GParted-livecd maintainer Main site : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ######################### Therefore mount -o loop F-7-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/zip cd /mnt/zip/images dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sdxxxx ######################### On my machine I had to do the above and Select USB Zip on Asus board!! Boot up past the problem and then insert the DVD It Works!!!! john
