FC5 installation freezes on D101GGC Mobo

[biswanath]

Beloved Members,
I wanted to install Fedora Core 5 on a PC with D101GGC motherboard and intel PIV-2.66 Ghz processor. Installation freezes on the first screen after the boot: prompt. I thought that the on-board ATI graphics card may have to be configured latter and tried to proceed with the text mode installation. But it also stalled there. Would anybody help me?

[Black_Monkey]

Have you tried the different installs?
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#otherinstall
I got a blue screen with random white characters during install, and the "ide=nodma" one helped that...

[biswanath]

Thanks, Black_Monkey ! Sometimes we ignore the first hand resources at the corner. I have gone through the FedoraFAQ page several times, but overlooked the point you mentioned. Thanks for the pointer. I shall try it soon.

[biswanath]

I have tried "linux ide=nodma" first. It solved the white random character problem and Anaconda started probing the system. But X.org failed to start. I tried "nofb" flag also. That also failed to start x.org. Finally, I issued "linux=nodma nofb" both at a time, but problem remains the same. Any idea, please?

[roonjha]

HI,
try the text installation