Last night I installed Fedora Core 2 on my machine and it is so not working. I have an Athlon 2500+ overclocked to 2.2 GHZ (3200+ speed) running on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset) with an ATi Radeon 9600XT. I have a 120 GB hard drive hooked up to the second primary IDE slot (hdb), my burner on the first secondary IDE slot (hdc), and DVD-ROM on the second secondary IDE slot (hdd).
First issue was that while the installer was booting, I got messages like this:
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hde: device not responding (status=0xfe)
hdg: device not responding (status=0xfe)
hde: device not responding (status=0xfe), resetting device
hde: device not responding (status=0xfe)
hdg: device not responding (status=0xfe), resetting device
hdg: device not responding (status=0xfe)
I'm not totally sure of the error messages because these are from memory. Now, I don't have any devices on hde or hdg (and what happened to f?). Anyway, it spent about 3-4 minutes querying these devices before continuing. I wouldn't have thought much of it except that when I tried to boot linux using GRUB, it wouldn't boot! I get a message like this:
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Uncompressing the kernel... OK, booting the kernel
audit (1209831283:405)
Then the system hangs (again, this is from memory so it isn't perfect). GRUB is loaded in /boot which is the first partition (hdb1? 133 MB, within 1024 cyl boundary if that matters nowadays). / is in an extended partition, not sure what the number is off hand. Please help!
