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
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On the P5B-VM DO, the problems came down to the JMicron JMB363
controller. As the floppy and PATA drives are run under this
controller, I switched to a SATA DVD burner and disabled the JMicron
controller completely, using the ICH8DO controller exclusively. Voila,
no more problems. I only wish the P4S800D-X problems were that simple.
As a last resort on the P4S800D-X, I pulled the DVD burner, and did a
network install. Once again, everything went well until I got to the
First Boot screen and then everything locked up again.
Thanks,
Jon
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Vancouver, BC V6R 4H4
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