On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 17:53:40 -0400, Damon Register
When I ran into strange install problems, I used F2 to get text mode install and then I chose manual install. I am no expert at that but I was able to fake my way along and got it to install.
I tried that, but the install stalled out at the same place: (The last several lines of output:) ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0xefe0-0xefe7, 0xefae on irq 5 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, UDMA(100) hde: attached ide-disk driver. And stop. BTW, I did discover some new (to me) information in the BIOS: my 80 gig drive is my primary master, while the DVD/CD drive is secondary master and the 120 gig drive is the tertiary master. I didn't know there was such a thing as a tertiary master. Should I be going in and jumpering it as the primary slave or something? Anybody else want to take a crack at this non-install problem?