cedarhaywork
July 28th, 2008, 11:02 AM
Have tried as many of the options suggested in numerous threads as I could find but no joy, so any suggestions more than welcomed.
Trying to install onto an old(ish) box, each attempt has different issues. The box itself should be powerful enough even tho spec is quite low (512 memory, 40Gb hdd. No dual boot)
Live CD boot, get the initramfs/busybox dialogues. Various different messages depending on which of the kernel parms I try
(all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll pci=nomsi noapic noloapic in various combinations)
On a couple of occasions I have managed to get the Live cd booted all the way. Once I even managed to install - but it wouldn't then reboot :(
Have tried the alternate cd ... booted off cd and went through a few of the screens but then hardware scan couldn't find the cd
I will try 7.10 tonight, but I expect that to fail (I should note that fedora 9 also has similary issues, although w95, w98, xp all install ok)
Primary master ide, 40Gb
Primary slave - empty
Secondary master - zip drive
Secondary slave - cd/dvd rom
Is there any mileage in swapping round ide connections ? Any other thoughts ? Thanks
Trying to install onto an old(ish) box, each attempt has different issues. The box itself should be powerful enough even tho spec is quite low (512 memory, 40Gb hdd. No dual boot)
Live CD boot, get the initramfs/busybox dialogues. Various different messages depending on which of the kernel parms I try
(all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll pci=nomsi noapic noloapic in various combinations)
On a couple of occasions I have managed to get the Live cd booted all the way. Once I even managed to install - but it wouldn't then reboot :(
Have tried the alternate cd ... booted off cd and went through a few of the screens but then hardware scan couldn't find the cd
I will try 7.10 tonight, but I expect that to fail (I should note that fedora 9 also has similary issues, although w95, w98, xp all install ok)
Primary master ide, 40Gb
Primary slave - empty
Secondary master - zip drive
Secondary slave - cd/dvd rom
Is there any mileage in swapping round ide connections ? Any other thoughts ? Thanks