R A Jon Hamelin 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.
Karl wrote:
This sounds like a real hardware problem. There is something on the
motherboard that is not happy with the fedora setup. Did you setup
Fedora in the graphic mode, not the text mode?
Confusing because the DVD is being used to load the system...I
wonder if somehow the DVD currupted some files? Having the same
problem on both motherboards points to the DVD as the problem. Why you
could not load the Live F7 CD is interesting. Tell us more about that.
Interested because I will recieve a new motherboard on Thurday and
sure hope Ferdora 7 will run on it.
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
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Linux User
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Hi Karl:
Thanks for the quick response.
I pulled the DVD burner in question and replaced it with one that I know
works with F7. Same issue +. Now, upon reboot, I get the message
"Overclocking failed. Press F1 to enter setup". The system has never
been overclocked, so I don't know where this came from. In addition the
system clock is reset and behind by 6 or 7 hours
The media has passed the preinstall test, the burners are used on other
systems with F7 & FC6 with no issues. The F7_live_i386 loads fine on the
machine in question, however, locks after installing, rebooting and
running First Boot. This is my first use of a chipset other than Intel,
and am wondering if it is the SiS chipset??
Once I installed the F7_live_86_64 from ram on the P5B-VM DO, ( Intel
Q965 Express) I had no further problems. I have burned close to 50 DVD's
with the LG burner and no coasters, so I wonder.
I would like to donate the PIII that this machine will be replacing in
time for the new school year, but need the replacement up and running
before this can happen.
Thanks,
Jon
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R A Jon Hamelin
Hamelin Graphics
324-1985 Wallace St
Vancouver, BC V6R 4H4
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