> Eva,
> 
> How long does it run before the "hang" appears?

On the older machine (shanghai), if you booted from the SL44 boot CD
and did not use any boot options, it used to hang at

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

before reaching any of the installation questions.  However, I tried
the same thing this morning and it ran through the install procedure
until it said "No hard drives have been found".  I suspect that the
difference is because the hard drive was blank before and now has
Linux on it, especially as WOC installed Fedora Core 6 on the new
machine which is behaving the same way.

On the newer machine, osmosis, IF you use the boot options
"all-generic-ide pci=nommconf" then it will get as far as "Formatting
/ file system" then appear to lock up.  The message "Disabling IRQ
217" seems to keep popping up during the install (more than it did
during the install of shanghai), and on VC 5 (if that's the right term
for the screen accessed by Ctrl-Alt-F5) the last message is:

Writing inode tables: 130/1176

I'm not a computer expert so this is just a guess, but it seems like
Linux and my SATA controller don't get on too well, and maybe it is
worse when the CD drive is a SATA drive as well?
Eva.

> >>> I'm having some trouble installing SL44 on a new machine from World of
> >>> Computers.  As far as WOC are aware, the only difference between this
> >>> machine and the one I was asking about in December is that the IDE
> >>> DVD-RW drive has been replaced by a SATA drive because they were
> >>> having difficulty getting a different version of Linux to communicate
> >>> with the IDE drive.
> >>>
> >> It is not the hard drive which is the problem, it is your SATA controller.
> >> By any chance can you try to boot if from a (recent!) Knoppix live CD,
> >> and run 'lspci' for us?
> >
> > The output of lspci follows:
> >
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
> > 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation P965/G965 HECI Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
> > 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
> > 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
> > 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
> > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
> > 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
> > 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
> > 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
> > 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
> > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
> > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]
> > 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 [Radeon X300SE]
> > 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1)
> > 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
> > 07:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
> >
> >
> > This is more or less identical to the output of lspci on the older
> > machine that froze during the install process unless you used the
> > option pci=nommconf.
> >
> > barbu 14:52% diff osmosis-lspci shanghai-lspci
> > 25,26c25,26
> > < 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 6101 (rev b1)
> > < 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
> > ---
> >> 03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.: Unknown device 6101 (rev b1)
> >> 07:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)
> >
> > (osmosis is the new one, shanghai is the old one.)
> > Eva.
> >
>