I would like an answer from someone who has installed RedHat 8.0 on a Compaq Presario 1516US laptop...
while enlessly trying, reformating, and creating partitions, i have not yet been able to get passed a freeze when the installation is initially checking for the:
Partition Check: hda:
the check reaches this point and the cursor will blink at the hda check for eternity if you leave it on that long.
At first i thought it had something to do with the NTFS formatting of the drive, so i tried FAT32 on the boot partition on C:/ w/no avail.........
im using PartitionMagic 7.0 Pro to create a 10G partition and a 500Mb swap
I suspect this means Red Hat is having trouble correctly identifying your IDE. Many laptop owners find they have to use a kernel parameter idebus=50 or idebus=66 to specify their IDE bus controller speed. Sometimes this is only necessary for the installation, but usually it's necessary for any Linux boot. You might try starting your installation by entering:
linux idebus=50
If this doesn't fix the problem, you could try the more radical variation:
