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Re: Installation failure of SL5.3 64 bit - on system using SATA Drives
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:43:33 +0200
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Hi,

You chipset seems to be nvidia based. I don't know this particular
chipset, but RHEL/SL kernels have sometime problems with nvidia based
chipsets. Maybe it helps to use the following boot parameters at
installation. Either all at once or independent.

all_generic_ide
acpi=off
noapic

Urs



[MicroControls] Larry Linder wrote:
> A few weeks ago I posted a message about SATA install failure.
> Sent SUSE information for Suse 9.3  it installs and runs on systtem.
> SL did not install - got to driver for SATA disk and it dies in its tracks.
> Did not find any way to determine what happened.
>
> Larry Linder
> MicroControls.com

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