FWIW (not much I'm afraid) I had a similar problem with F7 on an ASUS mb with an ,er,unusual drive configuration (2 additional PIDE controllers in addition to the one on the motherboard, everything full). I couldn't solve it and reverted to FC5 on that box (6 is a disaster here, although I understand others have no trouble with it). Here's the really strange part - a different box, exact same MB, controller, and drive configuration, F7 installed painlessly. I dunno. Mike- On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:14:55 -0700, you wrote: >I am trying to run F7 on an ASUS P4S800D-X motherboard with SIS 655FX >chipset. Installation goes OK, however when I reboot the system locks up >when trying to run First Boot. I sometimes receive an error message in >regard to ATA2 not initializing, sometimes the mouse and keyboard lock. >The only device attached to ATA2 is an LG HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H22N DVD >burner. My 2 hard drives are SATA. > >I can access the OS via rescue mode on the DVD, can run X in chroot, >have checked the log files for Anaconda and can find no clue as to why >the system is locking up. It recognizes the DVD burner as ATA66, which >it is and confirms that it is on ATA2. > >I had the same problem installing F7 86_64 on an ASUS P5B-VM DO with the >same model DVD Burner. I finally succeeded in installing on this mb by >loading the Live CD into RAM and installing from there. This tactic did >not work for F7 i386, and the P4S800D-X, unfortunately. > >Has anyone else encountered a similar problem? I thought that the fact >that this drive uses UDMA-4 rather than UDMA-2 may have been the problem >, so I reset the drive in BIOS to use UDMA-2, also without success. > >The puzzling part of this is that I can install and run ubuntu with >absolutely no problems, and I dual-boot into XP with no problems > >I have been messing with this problem for over 2 weeks now and have not >found a resolution. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated >as I would rather keep all of my setup in Fedora. > >Thanks, > >Jon > >-- >R A Jon Hamelin >Hamelin Graphics >324-1985 Wallace St >Vancouver, BC V6R 4H4 > >778 327 9302 -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
