[sllug-members]: Fedora Core install problems

[Doran Barton]

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Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> I am having a hard time figuring this out, I am trying to install fedora
> core 6 on my computer and it keeps freezing when it begins searching for
> existing installations, right after choosing my keyboard layout, and it
> is a total system freeze so I can't hop to another terminal and get
> output, I have tried the DVD and a CD, I have searched the net fo
> solutions and tried to boot with noprobe and nobmraid, but to no avail. 
> I have 2 80 gig sata hard drives, my motherboard is an Asus A7V600 with
> the via VT 600 chipset and a via-sata controller for the drives, I have
> previously installed just about every distro on this box, and I know it
> to be in good working order.  I have also been posting on fedora forums
> without any luck.

Try noapic and acpi=off.

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