Installation Problem...[b]Please[/b]

[marco]

Hello everybody !
Installing from the cd-rom my box just ice with no message during the hd cd recognition.

:oops: this is the last messages:

hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6E030L0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03f900, I/O limit 4095 Mb(MASK ox ffffffff)
blk: queue c03fac5, I/O limit 4095 Mb(MASK ox ffffffff)
hdc: TEAC CD-W552E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000,ATAPI CD/DVD ROM dirve
ide0 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq5
ide1 at 0xefe0-0xefe7,0xefae on irq5
hda: attached:ide-disk driver

:shock: ;) and this is my box hardware.

Processor

Model : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Speed : 2.41GHz
Performance Rating : PR2647 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 128kB ECC Synchronous ATC

Mainboard

Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC : Yes
System BIOS : American Megatrends Inc. 080009
Mainboard : ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P4P800
Total Memory : 511MB DDR-SDRAM

Physical Storage Devices

Removable Drive : Unità disco floppy
Hard Disk : Maxtor 6E030L0
Hard Disk : Maxtor 6E040L0
CD-ROM/DVD : HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000
CD-ROM/DVD : TEAC CD-W552E

Chipset 1

Model : ASUSTeK Computer Inc 82865GPEP Processor to I/O Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 4x 100MHz (400MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 166MHz (332MHz data rate)

Video System

Monitor/Panel : Schermo predefinito
Adapter : Matrox Millennium G400


Peripherals

FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : Host controller VIA OHCI compatibile IEEE 1394
Keyboard : Tastiera standard 101/102 tasti o Tastiera Microsoft Natural PS/2
Mouse : Mouse Microsoft PS/2

MultiMedia Device(s)

Device : Periferica compatibile MIDI MPU-401
Device : Porta giochi standard
Device : SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

:( does anybody know how to solve this problem ?

[feenixx]

tried installing with 'linux acpi=off' parameter?

[marco]

:( Yes , I tried "linux acpi=off" : Nothing changed.

Does anybody have other suggestion ?

Ciao Everybody.

[the-linux-guy]

:( Yes , I tried "linux acpi=off" : Nothing changed.
Does anybody have other suggestion ?

I guess Linux can't deside on which harddrive he wants to install itself.
Try to initiate the install routine with extra parameters:
linux install /dev/hda (for the 1st harddisk, /dev/hdb for 2nd hardisk)

Greetings,

Eddy

[marco]

:?: thankx linux-guy, unfortunatly this way doesn't work too. I really can't understand what's wrong ? :?
But if you or other has suggestion I'm waiting to try it.
Please help.

[master_b]

Whenever I have problems trying to install linux on a new/modified PC I always boot a "Live CD" distro to see if anything is broken. In my experience "Live CD" distros tend to find all hardware and have less problems than do full distros installed to hard drive.

I suggest that you download Suse Live Evaluation iso (http//www.suse.com/ or any mirror site ) and give that a try. You can check the Suse config files (especially /etc/fstab for the drive mount points) etc.

[fjleal]

You can also use Knoppix (www.knoppix.org) for that test. It is a good policy to test any box with Knoppix prior to the final distro installation.

[marco]

Thank U people,
I tried both of them: Suse configured almost everything in a perfect way, knoppix had some problem with Lan and sond built on motherboard, this let me think that soon or later I'll manage to install a normal Distro but....now what should I do with fedora Distro ?
should I check some configuration from the live system ?
how to understand what's should I correct....ehm ehm I'm not the perfect hacker or better not hacker at all :)
....
tryng and waiting ....HELP !!!

[marco]

Hi !!!
As I said I'm not the hacker,
I still have the problem with no solution at all.
But here we have an hacker community...isn't it ?
;) Please....sombody with a good soul..... may you help me ?

[fjleal]

Somebody with a good soul, that's me - and very modest, too! ;)

Looking at your hardware list, I really can't see a reason for the installation not to work. Sorry, can't help you further. :(

Have you tried the Fedora irc channels for help? #fedora on freenode.net, I think. Maybe someone there can help...

[teghem]

did you check the md5sum. I had to download the first cd, wich is the most important twice .

[marco]

Hi gus !
thanks for your help but.....is not nice that after almost 10 days that my question is in the forum I founded something likea solution by myself.
Anyway probably nobody that as this controller or this M/B read the message.

This is the solution:
from: http://www.e-aiyama.com/~toshi/Computer/Linux/SATA.html

The recent new PC market is populated with the PC based on Intel's 865 chipsetts. Its ICH5 can accomodate 2 chanels of existing ATAPI devices and 2 chanels of SATA devices, all together 6 devices. The current debian installer does not directly let you install debian to a SATA hard disk attached to Intel ICH5R. Furthermore I still doubt the next release of debian "sarge" will let you install to it.

it seem that the only problem is the ICH5R on Intel 865

At moment the only thing that I did was to disable ICH5R from the bios, but this is not really a nice solution.

Does somebody has the right method for Fedora :? ?

Ciao Marco.

[marco]

The guilt page

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-006312-prd40.htm

Isn't FC1 kernel up to Kernel 2.4.21-ac4 ??