Quoting Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>:
"Dave Reid" <davereid@telusplanet.net> writes:
I disabled the Serial ATA drive and installed a 60GIG standard ATA133 drive. I installed Windows on this drive to confirm all the hardware was working and it was. In went the SUSE 9.0 PRO for AMD 64 DVD I paid $200 for, it displayed the install menu, I selected INSTALL and it start to boot. It then promptly seized up at exactly the same place it did before as below:
Starting hardware detection
misc.1.3 read floppy - then nothing.
This so far was always a BIOS bug. So, please buy next time correctly working hardware.
Workarounds: - Add "idle=poll" to the linuxrc command line (where you choose the boot options) - Disable legacy USB support
Which of these two will help, depends on the exact problem and the BIOS bug.
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Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
I tried those before writing the note, no difference.