On 2/24/2008 9:59 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
Fedora 8, Fedora 7, Ubuntu 7.10 all fail essentially the same way:
the inital boot from the CD is OK but then they can't find the CD
drive to do anything else. Messages like "ata 3.00 failed toset
xfermode" " ata3 port failed to respond" "Can not find root file
system"
Booting Knoppix-type disks, such as Knoppix 5.1.1 and DamnSmall Linux
3.4 both act the same: Splash screen, then two penguins, and no other
visible progress ever. Looks like it stops being able to read the CD
but has no way to complain.
On the other hand, booting the Fedora 8 installation DVD does its
thing for a while, reads from the DVD just fine, but when it comes to
configuring drives, it does not see SATA0. Only SATA1.
I am confused. My upgrade plan for this computer is to replace the
IDE and dongle with a genuine SATA drive, and do a clean install on
that. Then I will put the old drive in a USB box and transfer
whatever seems useful. Now I worry some about being able to boot the
installer. :-(
Meanwhile, the system works just fine booted from its pseudo-SATA drive 0.
Maybe you're past this point now, but I didn't see a reply.
Have you tried disabling acpi when booting the live CD(DVD)? Something like
pci=noacpi acpi=off
included as kernel arguments to the boot loader. With a function key or
something you should be able to edit a line rather than just selecting
from a menu.
I've had similar problems on some systems with Knoppix, Fedora, and
Ubuntu live CDs. I understand it's due to bugs in the motherboard/bios.
Karl
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