Linux Install error

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

According to the stats I've found online, the board includes Serial ATA
connections.  I'm guessing your using a SATA drive?

Sata support under linux is relatively new.  I'm not sure if it's
supported in Fedora yet.  There's a pretty good chance that this is your
problem.

Otherwise, try booting the install disk with the "noapic" and "acpi=off"
options on the commandline.  Both ACPI and APIC can cause problems on
certain boards.  You can use this to try to rule them out.

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:02, Kevin Zablonski wrote:
> I have just recently purchased an asus p4c800 deluxe motherboard with a
> 3.0 Ghz P4 processer w/ hyperthreading.  I have two maxtor Diamondmax plus
> 9 80Gig 7200 RPM 8Mb buffer hard drives.  Phew...anyways.  I have
> installed and ran XP with no problems, but whenever I try to install
> redhat, the installation freezes.  I have tried redhat 8.0, 9.0, and
> fedora core1 with the same result.  I have tried everything I can think of
> and searched google for days with no luck.  I originally tried to set up
> linux using the onboard RAID, but I have since taking this away and
> attempted a basic install to see if that worked.  It always seems to
> freeze right after the main install screen.  This is what the screen
> freezes on when installing fedora.  All other versions show similiar if
> not the same errors.  Like I said, I have spent days over this rather
> trivial task and would greatly appreciate it if someone could steer me in
> the right direction.  If you need anymore hardware information just let me
> know.  Thank You in advance for your help.
> 
> *****************************************************************
> hda: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: Maxtor 6Y080P0, ATA DISK drive
> blk:  queue c03d9420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> blk:  queue c03d9560, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hdc: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-252F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide0 at 0xefe0--xefe7, 0xefae on irq 5
> ide0 at 0xefa0--xefa7, 0xefaa on irq 5
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> 
> DEAD...............
> ******************************************************************
> 
> 
> Kevin Zablonski
> 
> 
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