Re: Long standing trouble installing x86_64

Mark Davis wrote:

>I purchased a Pogolinux Altura64 workstation that came with Fedora
>Core. Being a longtime Mandrake user I thought that it woujld be
>trivial to get this system running with MDK.
>
>Sadly I have spent about 16 hours working on this system with both
>10.1 and 10.2 without getting past the same point.
>
>The installer program hangs at the point of "Looking for available packages". 
>
>I have tried this with several combinations of the following parameters:
>text
>alt1
>alt0
>ide=nodma 
>noapic 
>nolapic 
>noiopic 
>acpi=off
>
>I know that it sees and can access both the cdrom and the SATA hard
>disk because a secondary boot partition has been formatted. Also I can
>boot in rescue mode and mount my old partitions.
>
>I would be open to doing a raw rpm install if that would work... I'm
>sick of Fedora
>
>~drdreff
>
>  
>
This is likely going to seem like a very dumb question, but is your BIOS 
running the most latest version?