On 2/5/07, Eva Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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.
>

The standard items I have foudn with with the 'Intel Corporation
82801H' on systems was the following:

1) Install the latest BIOS updates.
2) Try with the pci=noapic

3) Try the SL5 alpha cdrom.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"