Hi everyone.

I am having problem installing red hat. The installation always get stuck when starting up (without GUI yet).

Sil680: IDE Controller at PCI Slot 01:0a:0
Sil680: Chipset revision 2
Sil680: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Sil680: base clock == 133

ide 2: MMIO-DMA AT 0XE080D000-0xe080d007 BIOS Settings: hde: pio, hdfio
ide 3: MMIO-DMA AT 0xe080d008-0xe080d00f BIOS Settings: hdg: pio, hdhio

Sil3112 Serial ATA: IDE Controller at PCI Slot 01:0b:0
Sil3112 Serial ATA: Chipset revision 2
Sil3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native modeL will probe irqs later

ide 4: MMIO-DMA at 0xe080f000-0xe080f007, B"IOS Settings: hdiio, hdjio
ide 5: MMIO-DMA at 0xe080f008-0xe080p00f, BIOS Settings: hdkio, hdlio

hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA Disk Drive
blk: queue c02f5160, I0 limit 4095MB
hdc: SONY CDU4811, ATAPI CD/DVDROM
hdd: IOMEGA CDRW9600INT-B, ATAPI CD/DVDROM
hde: WDC WD200EB-00CPF0, ATA Disk Drive

hdi: no response (status = 0xfe)
hdk: no response (status 0xfe)

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,03f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
-------------Hang Here------------------
I am using Asus A7N8x Deluxe and a Silicon Image 0680 PCI IDE Card.

Type
linux text

at the boot screen, before hardware detection. I have found that the GUI based installation (default) is crap on Redhat, but the text mode works like a dream, and is much faster.

And dont forget to make sure PnP OS is set to "no" in your BIOS.

Hi there.

I can't find any settings in my BIOS to disable any PnP OS setting.

I tried using linux text, but it still get stuck.

I suggest unpluging the device that causes RedHat to hang.
Then try re-installing RedHat.

Later on, you can have RedHat re-detect the hardware.

I tried to troubleshoot it, found out that, if my Western Digital hard disk is connected to my IDE RAID Card, it will cause this problem.

I run out of IDE connection, hence the need of a IDE RAID card and also, installation of Red Hat could not be done on my main hard disk as the disk space is needed for other documents.

Any solution?

bump.