NForce2 and RedHat 8.0 Installation Issues

[mokbaberia]

Hi
I installed RH8 previously on another PC, everything went smoothly, now i tried to install RedHat8.0 on another workstation > that has a Asus A7N8X mboard with the NForce2 chipset, the installer starts, i choose the language, configure keyboard, mouse, sucessfully use DiskDruid to format the emtpy space into a /boot, a /, and a swap partitions, then i choose the advanced boot loader options, so that i can set up the boot loader into the partition boot record (i then copy the boot into C: as linux.bin, and put that entry in the boot.ini file, so that i can have a regular MS boot menu with an added RH8 entry).
So, i select the advanced boot options, i select the partition boot record, select the timezone, and then, i clicked "next"
and i get a total crash > some sort of "kill" signal makes the installer exit in error, and then when things settle down i get a "You can now safely boot your PC" message.
Is this some sort of NForce2 (in)compatibility issue with RedHat 8.0 ?
Or a BIOS issue?
I don't have a clue, anyone has any suggestions/tips regarding this?

This PC has the following configuration>
Asus A7N8X mboard with onboard 6-channel audio and LAN (Realtek 8201), NForce2 chipset, FSB333MHz, dual-channel DDR400MHz RAM, but i use 1GB of DDR333MHz RAM.
I have one 40GB 7200rpm ATA100 HD, and one 80GB 7200rpm ATA133 HD, i think that both HD's should be in ATA100 mode, since the slowest ATA100 forces ATA100 mode.
The CPU is a AMD AthlonXP 2.2GHz, and the graphics card is a GeForce4MX440 64MB DDR, DVI and TV-Out.

[Andy Mecham]

A few things to try:

- Test your install CDs. Do they pass?
- Try installing in text mode. Does this work?

--andy

[mokbaberia]

Hi
About the installation CD's, they're all OK, i've previously installed RH8.0 in my previous motherboard, and all went OK, and i just installed the same RH8 CD's on another workstation too.
About the text mode installation, i tried that too.
When installing in text mode i don't have the same problem as in graphic mode installation, so, i really manage to properly configure everything and start installing.
The files are actually being copied from the CD, but sooner or later i still get an error and the installation ends in error.
I have a Asus A7N8X motherboard, with NForce2 chipset, 1 GB DDR333MHz RAM, and a GeForce4MX440 AGP4x card, with DVI and TV-Out. About the HD's > a IBM 40GB ATA100 5400rpm HD; and a Maxtor 80GB ATA133 7200rpm HD.
When i used my previous motherboard everything went ok > the things that changed, from the previous sucessfull instalation scenario were > motherboard > from a Asus A7V to a Asus A7N8X.
Memory > from 1GB PC133 RAM to 1GB DDR333MHz RAM.
CPU > from Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz to AthlonXP 2.2GHz.
and graphics card> from Asus V7100 GeForce2MX400 64MB
to XFS GeForce4MX440 64MB DDR, TV-Out, analog+DVI

Any tips about this? I really need help, i'm totally lost


Just one more question, altough somewhat unrelated >
do you think that there may be any (in)compatibility issue regarding the ATA100 HD, and the second HD, the ATA133HD ?
They're on UDMA mode naturally, could this be the source of some issues?:(