i just receive my new harddisk seagate ST340014A 7200rpm 40GB supporting ultra ATA, myself owns gigabyte GA5AX old motherboard with AMD k6-2 500MHZ CPU, using UDMA 66. i installed redhat 7.2,7.3 and 8.0 flawlessly on my old harddisk(seagate 5400rpm 40GB)

i try to install redhat8.0 on the new harddisk, installation hang after the computer startup, go through bios, extract kernel(little bit slow compare to normal extract speed), hang when the computer checking the partition something like this

checking partition
hda:

then it hangs there, my windows 98 install/works fine

harddisk surface scan without bad sector

so i decided to try my luck on Redhat7.2, bootup/install sucessfully, but hangs again when reach the
configure kernel parameter
section
anybody have any idea about this?
is this hardware or software problem?
or need special kernel parameter setting?

btw i already upgrade my bios version to the lattest one support up to 65GB

hope somebody can help me on this
thanks

I seem to remember that RedHat sometimes has problems with non Intel processors. Try looking around for nopentium kernel option. Just a thought.

i had install RedHat linux 7.2,7.3,8.0 on my pc several times before and the pc is working fine
except this time i change a new harddisk