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"