hardware:
motherboard asus M2N-E
cpu athlon 64x2 4200
memmory; G.Skill' DDR2 800, 2GB, dualchanel
videocard; EVGA brand, GeForce 7600gs pci-e, fanless, s-video out
hard drives; sda 36GB rapter, sdb 36GB rapter, sdc wd sata 500GB, no pata hard drives
cd/dvd: magicspin hda
keyboard/mouse Logtech cordless
tunner: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE
sound: onboard
screen: generic 19 LCD (temp), tv on svideo
Power: antec phantom 500w, fanless

Goal: no problem, silent, upgradable, PVR that runs on one remote an/or keboard. The file system/swap/tvcatch on raptures, movies on the 500GB drive

To me the hadware looks like a Tier 1.

ran a memmory test with overclockix bootcd, memmory ok.wanted to do a stress test but could not run any others.


tred to install r5e50 with Introductions on http://www.mysettopbox.tv/pamphlet.html
Manual Install on sda , using the knoppmyth-sata install script.
during the installing software screen, the one with the progress bar, I get a out of place black bar with "Mount: /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device" in it.
Install done I reboot to the drive, get 1 error somthing about unknown?? nvidia ??, loading??? , it went to fast to see.
The screen flashed several 8?times then
"INIT: Id "c7" respawning too fast disable for 5 min
repeat repeat...

started searching, found, http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... light=asus
very simular setup, except r5b7 iso


I installed r5b7 just like abouve, rebooted, loads about 30 or so lines and I get:
logips2pp: dected unknown logitch mouse model62
VFS:Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Supend2: Initrd lacks echo > /proc/suspend2/do_resume.
VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or unknown-block(8,1)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernal panic -not sycing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)
System locks up


I ran knoppmyth testcd on all cds.
I am running sata boot drive on another machine with 2.6xx kernel no problems.
IS R5B7 ISO wrong? Am I missing a boot option? Drivers?




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I really appreciate all the detail and effort you put into your post/install so far.

R5B7 is quite old in the MythTV/Knoppmyth world now. Do you think it would be possible to download R5E50 and try that. SATA hus much more emphasis in R5E50 than ever before. It should just work.

See TJC's R5E50 install guide in under the hints and tips section before you begin.

The Ether..

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[MBE] SilverStone LC-10 HTPC Case, Asus M2NPV-VM, AMD X2 4200+, 1G RAM, Nvidia 9500 PCIe, PVR500 and a HD-PVR - Rockin VDPAU

You can auto installed to SATA with R5E50, auto install however will only install to one drive. Given the drives you have, looks like you have something else in mind.... X not starting seems to be the issue. Reinstall R5E50 and try:

Tring what cecil wrote, reinstalled R5E50, after install compleated, I hit <Alt> <Ctrl> <F1> ,entered at prompt install-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0-8776 -force

I got:
dpkg-warning: ignoring request to remove nvidia-glx which isn't installed
same for: nvidia-Kernel-2.6.18-chw-13,
nvidia-glx-legacy
nvidia-Kernel-legacy-2.6.18-chw-13
nvidia-glx
and many others above the screen

serveral configuration files were not found, but this installed them
blaa
blaa
Unpacking nvidia-Kernel-legacy-2.6.18-chw-13
Unpacking nvidia-glx
dpkg: error processing nvidia-glx-legacy_*877*.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or dir
setting up nvidia-Kernel-2.6.18-chw-13 (1.0.8776-1+2.6.18-chw-13-10.00.Custom) ...
setting up nvidia-glx (1.0.8776-1) ...

installed two cofig files that did not exist:
/ect/default/nvidia-glx
/ect/init.d/nvidia-glx

creating NVIDIA TLS links...done.

entered: reboot
rebooted
same as before
screen flashes


last lines are:
starting MythTV server: MythTVbackend
starting periodic command scheduler: crond
Checking nvidia video driver installation.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 mythtv tty1
INIT: Id "c7" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes

I had the same thing with R5E0 on a motherboard with the S3 Unichrome chipset. I was installing to a 250 gig PATA drive and had 2 PVR150s on the board. I'm not in front of the box right now, but I can post the rest of the specs later if it will help. I reloaded a few times with the same results. It's currently on my bench awaiting more free time.

Gonz

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Athlon 64 3400+ / 2G / 250G
3 x PVR250
1 x PVR150

Try disconnecting the other drives and installing with just the PATA. Then reconnect and partition/format the other drives as desired afterwards.

The problem I think is in video card drivers. I found a posable solution here
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13110
had to use sda1 insted of hda1
nstall-nvidia-debian.sh 1.0-8776 -force

this ended in the same rsult as before.
tried typing in "startx" to see what error messages, this is what i got
NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device
Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 "

what is the correct driver for my card? gforce 7600gs
how does one edit a cofig file from a runlevel3.

Hi,
Just to get things going in x, default of "vesa" for a driver should allow it to start so you can at least go through and finish the setup. May have to watch the depth (16 / 24) and res (1024x768 / 800x600) also. I had troubles with the 1280x1024 being too much for my old hardware. I have an nvidia card and will only run with "nv" as a driver.

You may be in the opposite end with hardware that almost to new

After the 5 minutes, x will try to restart however you can check if the settings will work by trying # startx ... If it runs, ctl alt bckspace to kill it.

Mike

I looked again and the xorg.conf was completely empty. Something in the install must have gotten confused.

Gonz

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Athlon 64 3400+ / 2G / 250G
3 x PVR250
1 x PVR150

Could not get any KnoppMyth to install the right video driver.
So I tried a old stand by, in the form of Debian testing, It installed the "vesa" for video.
I will need a NVidia driver
I am going to install the Myth from that point.

Thank you all for your help

I'm having the same trouble: 7600gs by chaintech. IDE hard drive. NForce-2 MB.
Namely, the "c7" respawning
and when I try and install the nvidia drivers:error processing nvidia-glx-legacy_*877*.deb

dhclient and netcardconfig don't get me connected so I can't really download drivers

Every time I edit the xorg.conf it keeps getting overwritten when I reboot.

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Okay, got it fixed!
I installed another video card 5200
Did an upgrade reinstall
Everything worked fine and now with internet access,
Followed this guide switching in the 7600gs just before installing the drivers
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13443
and now everything is happy.

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