I have already installed 8.04 on two home machines and I am a big fan.
I tried installing 8.04 on an older machine last night (Athlon 1700
with IDE drives). The live CD worked fine. The installation process
had no problem. After rebooting the machine, the BIOS checks pass, and
then it freezes with only the word
GRUB

I'm not sure why it is stopping there. I reinstalled 5 times last
tried varying things slightly, and having different hard disks as my
install disk. Every time it booted it stopped with
GRUB

Also, if I boot from the live CD and then ask it to boot from the hard
disk, it freezes in the same way.

Some of my crazy guesses:
I noticed that during the install it recognized my IDE drives as SCSI
drives instead. I read something about 40 and 80 pin cables causing
problems.

Do I need some option like acpi=off? I seem to recall having to do
something similar years ago when I installed Fedora Core on the box.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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