New install. Installer hangs cold at initramfs prompt.

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Nat Gross wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM, "Terrell Prudé Jr."
> <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>   
>> Nat Gross wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi;
>>> Installing 8.0.4 on new 64 bit HP AMD Phenom9600 system, and a few
>>> moments after indicating "English", the system hangs cold with mouse
>>> and keyboard also locked.
>>> This happens at the initramfs prompt.
>>> Am installing 64 bit on the system which has Vista SP1 installed on
>>> half of 1 drive.
>>> The system has 2 465 gig drives attached to an HP Nvidia RAID
>>> controller but NOT configured as raid, just 2 drives.
>>> It also has a GeForce 8400 video, along with 6 gig of ram.
>>>
>>> Please advise.
>>> nat
>>>
>>>       
>> Those aren't Seagate hard disks by any chance, are they?
>>     
> Uh oh. I smell trouble.
> Seagate ST350063 500GB (465 gig in reality.) two of em.
> What's the scoop

Turns out that Seagate's taking a less-than-Linux-friendly stance of
late.  One series of their hard disks (as I recall, it was a 500MB
drive) specifically did not play well with Linux...bit it played quite
nicely with MS Windows.  Furthermore, their tech support people were
telling everyone that "our latest drives don't support Linux." 

Worse, now their USB external drives come pre-formatted with NTFS!  Talk
about Windows-only....

I stopped using Seagate drives then and there for that reason.

Can you try it with another brand of disk drive, just temporarily, to
see if things work?

--TP
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