On 2007/12/15 16:25 (GMT-0700) Craig White apparently typed: > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 17:47 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> ATM, I'm running a text install using noapic acpi=off, but am not hopeful of >> materially different results. >> Without making hardware changes, I'm at a loss what else to try. Ideas? > with hardware that's been around that long, you shouldn't have to add > any of those kernel parameters to get install but you might consider > only installing @base (maybe @editors) and keeping it simple because you > can then boot, do a 'yum groupinstall @whatever' afterwards Thanks for the suggestion. I tried yet again, cmdline text vga=788, then deselected everything except admin tools, hardware support, network servers. Still, boot halts with this tail: Loading ata_generic.ko module Noresume passed, not resuming... Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. Unless it blew by before I could see it, I'm puzzled why I'm seeing a message about ata_generic.ko, but not ata_piix.ko, since this is Intel ICH2. Booting F7 /var/log/messages has ata_piix but no ata_generic. I tried to loop mount the initrd as tmpfs to see if piix was in it, but the howto I found http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm doesn't work. :-( On rescue boot and chroot, lsmod shows ata_piix, and not ata_generic, so it seems there's some problem getting a good initrd from the installer. Under chroot I did 'mkinitrd --preload=ata_piix /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8x.img 2.6.23.1-42.fc8' but using that boot hangs after a bunch of USB messages that followed the enumeration of sdc partitions and the CD-ROM. :-( Unless someone has better ideas, maybe after I recuperate some from most of over 30 hours of only this I'll pull the HD off ICH2, stick it on ICH4, and see if an install goes more like normal, but I really don't like opening boxes for stuff like this. :-p -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
