On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > 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 ---- you have seen this ? http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn-Changes-in-Anaconda and of course this... http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Installer.html#sn-scsi-partition-limit right? Craig
