sorted!!!
dodgy IDE cable on my hard disk (pri master)
I noticed the bios was also having issues with detecting the drive properly, replaced the cable and its all good
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| Author: | nicom [ Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Failure to Boot from CD |
I am attempting to install Knoppmyth R5C7 on an old machine which I know may struggle to support it. The computer is a Pentium 2 350 Mhz, 256 MB. When I try to boot from the CD, Knoppix starts but freezes at "Looking for CDROM in: /dev/hdc" I have tried booting with NODMA, NOAPIC, FAILSAFE all with the same result. I have investigated the BIOS and tried changing secondary IDE detection from Auto to CDROM. No joy. I have tried the disk in a newer computer and it works and allows installation. Has anyone got any ideas? |
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| Author: | nicom [ Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:08 pm ] |
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Further to the above I have checked the MD5sum and reburnt the CD at the slowest speed. Same result. Anyone?? |
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| Author: | nicom [ Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Failure to Boot from CD - SOLVED |
Problem Solved. I changed the CDROM drive for another and it worked. It's funny because the original drive has allowed me to install other distros on the machine. |
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| Author: | soundoff [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:31 am ] |
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great search engine on this forum... i didnt find this post by searching "Looking for CDROM in:" Anyways im having the same problem, expcept mine is searching for a CDROM in hda ????? by the way did you ever get this system working? I have a P2 400mhz backend running dual tuners at the moment, its doable Currently building a new backend P3 ighz... if i can get it to boot |
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| Author: | cecil [ Sat Nov 11, 2006 1:09 pm ] |
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soundoff wrote: Anyways im having the same problem, expcept mine is searching for a CDROM in hda ????? Sounds like a bad burn/media/drive. You should first vary the MD5Sum of the ISO you download then:
Reburn at a lower speed or different media. Try another CD-ROM drive in teh system. |
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| Author: | soundoff [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:39 am ] |
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thanks for the reply cecil - appreciated. I have installed using this CDR and this CDROM drive before, I will still try another disc and drive... By the way i low level formatted my drive and it made no difference... doh! |
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| Author: | soundoff [ Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:15 am ] |
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sorted!!! dodgy IDE cable on my hard disk (pri master) I noticed the bios was also having issues with detecting the drive properly, replaced the cable and its all good
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| Author: | nicom [ Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:55 pm ] |
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Soundoff, In answer to your question about did I get my system working on the PII, the answer is no. I suspect it is due to my tuner card Winfast XP2000 Expert which does not seem to be very compatible with MythTV. My next project is to try Knoppmyth in a more modern machine P4 2.6Ghz but still using the same card (because that's what I have). |
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| Author: | soundoff [ Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:55 pm ] |
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To get away with a very low end machine you either need to be streaming DVB broadcasts directly to your hard drive, or if your encoding analog TV use a card that does hardware encoding.. I have dual digital tuners in my P2 400 and it works great. Only problem is mythweb is a little slow but its still very useable |
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