I have an Asus P4P800, people online over the years have suggested all kinds of boot tinkering and software changes. None of them ever work. The ONLY way you are going to get this board to work with Fedora is to change a BIOS setting. In your BIOS goto .. Main > IDE Configuration > Onboard IDE Operate Mode Change it from Enhanced Mode to Compatible Mode. After you have installed Fedora you can return it back to Enhance mode. > > Randy Ramsdell wrote: > Ok nice to be right back in the EXACT same position I was in several > years ago regarding this motherboard and installing FC. I think it was > FC3 that this first became an issue, but I was able to work around it > and install FC. So now, I tried to install FC6/7 and I yet to find a way > to get it installed. > > So now it has been a year or so without being able to run Fedora/CentOS. > Please help as I really don't want to use Ubunto and especially not Suse. > > Anyone have an issue installing on the Asus board? > > Trying to install causes a seg fault when dealing with the hard drives > either in BIOS setting compatibility mode or SATA mode. Anaconda shows > the hard drives as "/dev/mapper" or something like that, but as you > know, they should appear as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. All I ever see is a > single "/dev/mapper" which suggests that Anaconda sees a raid array even > after I fdisk the drives. Of coarse this also rendered the system > unusable after the seg fault resulted in a reboot. -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=193855&topic_id=42393&forum=10#forumpost193855 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame bengarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
