On Nov 12, 2007 11:56 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > > Unfortunately not. So I think I will try OpenSuse instead. > > > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171223&page=4&pp=15 > > Wow, sorry to hear that. It does however provide more proof to me on my > opinion that recent Fedora releases have not been tested enough. > Releasing a kernel that causes machines to randomly reboot is bad > enough, but releasing a WHOLE NEW VERSION that can't even boot off a > SATA drive... there's just no excuse for that. Yes my boot drive is SATA where Ubuntu 6.06/7.10 and Windows reside. The IDE drive have the data, FC8 and Arch Linux. Arch Linux boots fine. > I was thinking of trying Fedora 8, just for fun, but if such a huge > problem got through, what else is wrong with it? Guess I'm sticking with > Ubuntu! :) FC8 actually looks nice and the installation from single CD is very smooth. It just does not boot. ;-( > > By the way, I did try the one CD Mandrake 2008.0 as well. It does not even boot, > > just hangs there. > > Never tried Mandrake myself, any reason you wanted to try it, or are you > just interested in "seeing what else is out there" in the linux > world? :) Not really, I just want to try one RPM based installation. I like Fedora better than OpenSuse but I think both are fine. I did tried Mandrake long time ago. But I think Mandrake 2007/2008 both did not boot in my machine. I know the NForce NF3 chipset is partially to blame. The ATI9800SE graphics card might be another problem under Linux (but so far so good since I do not need eye candy like compiz). Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist