Re: Fedora Core 7 Test 3 failure to Boot

Keith wrote:

When I boot from the FC7 Test 3 Live CD with either regular or RAM
booting
options the Linux kernel is loaded, then vmlinuz then
Ready.
appears and the system hangs. I have tried linux=vesa as a boot option
with the same results. This is on a Dell e510 w/ 3.4 GHz P4 with SATA
drives. I have tried turning them off in the BIOS with the same results.
Any one have any ideas?

try adding:

all-generic-ide pci=nomsi pnpacpi=off pnpbios=off

to the grub menu.lst on the kernel boot line.

to test just add them to grub on boot by using the edit function

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