Red Hat 9.0 and Promise Ultra133

masked_user · 08-28-2003, 07:07 PM

A couple of days ago I downloaded Red Hat 9.0 and tried to install it on my pc and when I got to the menu asking me to choose from the GUI or the text installation no matter the option chosen, I hear the video clicking and the installation stops. I'm sure it's my Promise Ultra133 tx2 HD controller. Is there a way to bypass this problem. Previously I installed Knoppix on my HD and it did fine.

Mergatroid · 08-28-2003, 07:37 PM

Ouch. Not sure what you can do, but the OpenOffice suite is pretty nice if you can get RedHat working. It seems much more stable than StarOffice.

junpit · 08-29-2003, 03:53 AM

Hi

I've got a G7VAXP Gigabyte MB with Promise 20976 on board. Redhat 9 works a treat and mounts all the HDs and even my DVD+RW on the ide3 and ide4 ports.

Whats the MB?

-Junpit

masked_user · 08-29-2003, 05:38 PM

My MB is ASUS P2B-F with a PIII-600 and my video card is a Matrox Marvel G400. I also tried to install the linux distro and it wouldn't recognize my 2 HD installed on the Promise.

Mergatroid · 08-30-2003, 03:10 AM

You can't install RedHat on an NTFS drive. You might check that. You can install on FAT32.

masked_user · 08-30-2003, 12:05 PM

Finally found the real problem. Just unplugged the Matrox TV card.

Thanks for you help, everybody.