Re: install woes
- From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:35:08 +0200
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 17:09, whoosh wrote:
thanks for the info,
looking at the Fedora 9 64bit DVD:
the first option is:
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img
I tried
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img noapic nolapic
but that also was frozen up.
the second option is
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text
I tried instead:
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text noapic nolapic
that is also frozen up at the:
"disc found To begin testing the media ...." screen.
can you suggest any other boot commands to try?
I'd try the acpi=off, but I didn't need any boot options, as far as I remember
to get Fedora 8, or 9 to boot, although as I said, I do see that I have
appended the kernel, probably post-install. Mind you that's a different
machine, different hardware to yours.
Although you have FC3 installed with no problems, I would still look in your
BIOS, and see if there is an option to disable acpi, and if so, disable it,
as, as I mentioned, I couldn't boot anything with acpi enabled on this mobo
of mine.
Nigel.
On 30-Jul-08 14:25:41 Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:29, whoosh wrote:
first I downloaded the Fedora Core 9 64 DVD iso, took many hours,
but on attempting to install, it freezes up at the test media screen.
I then downloaded all the FC9 64 CD isos, tried the first one and
it freezes up at the test media screen.
I tried submitting a report on the University of Kent form, but that
failed!
I then tried the FC9 64 net install CD and it freezes up on the
choose language screen.
The PC is an AMD Sempron 64 tower, from probably 2006. I thought
maybe there are bugs in the early AMD64 CPUs.
so I tried the FC9 32 net install iso, freezes up on the "Choose a
language"
screen. That suggests it isnt a 64 bit bug.
I tried Ubuntu 64, 8.04.1 that freezes up once the desktop appears.
when I say freeze up I mean no response to keyboard (or mouse for
Ubuntu).
I installed FC3 some years ago without problem, and I use FC3 and
Windows XP
all the time without problem.
This may not be of much help, but I recently built a new machine with an
Asus
M2N-X Plus mobo (sktAM2), and an AMD64 3800+ CPU. Nothing at all would
boot on it, install discs, or live cd's, (keyboard, mouse, whole machine
locked up), until I disabled acpi in the BIOS, so that may be worth a
try.
I still had a bunch of problems installing some distros. Kubuntu Gutsy
Gibbon
7.10 (live cd, with option to install on desktop once booted) booted, and
got
as far as startx, but locked up before showing the KDM splash screen.
Fedora 8 installed ok, but I had problems booting post install, and had to
do
an interactive startup, as it was hanging at starting some services
(ip6tables, and cpu frequency scaling), which I then said (NO) to during
the interactive startup. It looks like I may have had problems also, when
it got booted as far as startx, with locking up prior to displaying GDM
login screen, as I see that I've appended the kernel line in
/boot/grub/menu.lst with noapic nolapic
Then I tried installing Kubuntu Breezy, which is perhaps a similar age to
your
FC3, and that installed ok, using the kernel 2.6.12-9-386. Upgraded Breezy
to
Dapper, as I had the updates lying about on another disk, which gave me a
new
kernel 2.6.15-52-386. Rebooted into the new kernel, and it got as far as
displaying KDM to login, but again everything was locked up. Well I knew
that
it booted ok with the original kernel, so tried it just to very that
Dapper would work ok with the older kernel, and no problems. Not sure if
I tried appending the new kernel with noapic nolapic, but if I did it
didn't work, as
I ended up booting into runlevel 1, tried startx, and the KDE desktop
opened with no probs. So I thought I'd boot into runlevel 3, login, and
try startx as user. Appended the kernel line with a 3 in grub, booted,
and no runlevel 3, but now the new kernel (2.6.15) has no problems, KDM
opens, and I login with no probs. Thats a bit weird, I know, but seems to
indicate perhaps, that
it might be a kernel related problem, all these freeze ups, as no prob
with 2.6.12, but probs with 2.6.15, and later.
Sorry for this very long post, but persevere please.
Now back to Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I tried alsorts to try and stop it
locking up when starting X. noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, noapic nolapic
(together), ll to no avail. The kernel line to boot the live cd also had a
bit "forcevesa" or something like that. I thought that should have been
ok. The pci-E graphics card is ati, but usually vesa works ok if ati
won't, but I
did notice that the the monitors menu showed a resolution of 1640 x
something, and my monitor uses 1024 x 768, so maybe the lockups were due
to the monitor/graphics card being totally out of range, when trying to
use either the vesa or ati driver with booting the live cd.
I removed the forcevesa bit from the kernel line, and appended it with
acpi=off, and booted, it got as far as starting x, tried to start it a
couple
of times, then dropped me back into text mode. Can't remember if I
directly edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, to change the max res to 1024 x 768,
or if I ran dpkg --reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, but either way, once
done a startx
got
me the login screen, and I got the live cd's desktop. Clicked on the icon
to install to harddrive, and that went ok, but I still have to append the
kernel
line in /boot/grub/menu.lst with acpi=off, otherwise the machine locks up
when starting x.
Apologies for the long post again, but there may something here that will
you
a few pointers.
As I said though, nothing would boot at all, until I disabled acpi in the
BIOS.
Btw, the processor is 64 bit, but all my installed distros are 32 bit
(i386).
I also tried the 1st cd for Fedora 9 to see if there were any boot
problems, but as a few days have passed now, and have just finished
dl'ing disk 6 (on dialup), I can't remember any specific bootup problems
for Fedora 9, apart from acpi needing to be disabled in the BIOS.
All the best.
Nigel.
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