Problems Installing Fedora Core 2

From: Kris Haight (khaight_at_nhvt.net)
Date: 07/08/04

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    Hello All-

    I usually don't join and then immediately post, but these problems with
    Fedora are driving me nuts. But I am wonder if anyone here can help.

    The first three are minor problems, then I will get to the big one.

    My System Configuration:

    AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" 1.2ghz
    Asus A7V133 (KT133A Chip) Motherboard
    768MB PC133 RAM
    ATI All-In-Wonder 7500
    Dell D1226H 19" Monitor
    3Com 3c905x Network Card
    Linksys WMP54G "Wireless-G" Network Card
    Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI Card
    Promise ATA100 UIDE Controller (on board)
    Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value
    VIA USB Controller
    Samsung SM-352B 52x CDR/RW + DVD Drive
    Aopen 32X CDROM Drive
    Microsoft Wheel Optical USB Mouse
    Dell "Internet" Keyboard USB
    HP OfficeJet K80 (connected via USB)

    (Yes I have no free slots in my computer!)

    Hard Drive Configuration:

    (on-board IDE controller)

    IDE 1:1 --> Samsung CDR/RW/DVD Drive
    IDE 1:2 --> Open
    IDE 2:1 --> Aopen 32x CDROM Drive
    IDE 2:2 --> Open

    (Promise UIDE Controller)

    UIDE 1:1 --> Western Digital 80GB Drive
    /dev/hde1 --> <swap> - 1024mb - Swap FS
    /dev/hde2 --> /boot - 150mb - Ext3
    /dev/hde3 --> C:\ (Windows XP) - 60GB - NTFS
    /dev/hde4 --> / - 16GB - Ext3

    UIDE 1:2 --> IBM DeathStar erm I mean Desktar - 75GB
    /dev/hdf1 --> D:\ - 75GB - NTFS

    UIDE 2:1 --> Maxtor 80GB
    /dev/hdg1 --> E:\ - 80GB - NTFS

    UIDE 2:2 --> Open

    Other System Notes: I have "Plug N Play OS" set to "No" in the BIOS. (helps
    with video capturing in Windoze). There is also no way to 'control' the
    Promise controller (as you would in the BIOS). It truly is "plug N pray" and
    auto detects my drives as "Ultra DMA 5"

    Now on to the problems...

    Problem #1
    ----------

    I cannot use a USB to PS/2 Mouse converter with my Microsoft Wheel Mouse
    Optical USB. I can only use it as a USB mouse. This is not a total bad
    thing, but I like my USB ports free for other things.

    Problem #2
    ----------

    Installer does not set the /boot partition as the active parition, instead
    it keeps my Windows partition as the active partition. This would not make
    grub accessible. Once I was able to change the active paritition to my /boot
    partition, I could get the grub loader screen, and load into Linux and/or
    Windows XP.

    Maybe I have not setup a dual boot system in a while, but I could have swore
    that the older redhat installers set the active partition to be the /boot
    partition (where applicable). Maybe I am wrong?

    Problem #3
    ----------

    I get this message when installing..

    "Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
    partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didnt have
    the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but ignoring may cause
    (fixable) problems with boot loaders."

    I just ignore it because I did at one point get linux to load, and it did
    not effect the boot loader.

    Problem #4 (The big one)
    ----------

    Problem: Installer locks up after I select "Custom", then select "Next" from
    the installer GUI.

    First off, I have to say that I did get it to install at one point because I
    used Text mode. However, even after I got it to install, it locked up on
    startup.

    I can replicate this problem over and over again, and it locks up at the
    same exact place. I cannot get past this point.

    Things I've Tried:

    1. Installing via text mode. Which works, but now locks up on startup
    2. I've checked the CDs for errors, No problems using Media Check
    3. Ram a Memtest86. Ran this overnight, no issues
    4. Manually resized the hard drive with kernel params. Did not help (nor did
    not remove that error message)
    5. Turned off Power Management in BIOS. Did not help.
    6. Passed noapic noalcpic arguments to kernel. Did not help.
    7. Thought maybe it was a heating issue. Took off covers, left it off
    overnight and tried again. No Workie.

    If it means anything, I can replicate a similar problem when trying to load
    Mandrake 10.0. But I've never had a problem with Windows XP, but then again
    it *IS* Windows :)

    Any help on these problems (particually #4) is greatly appreciated.

    TIA

    -- Kris 

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