That seems to have did the trick, I'm staring at the mythtv setup screen now
Thanks a lot!
Now... I'm having a couple issues post-installation but I'm going to tinker and hunt around a bit before I start another thread.
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| Author: | Jomboni [ Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Autoinstall hangs when formatting the /myth partition... |
I recently put together a nice little box to use as a PVR and decided to give KnopMyth a try. I bought a nice big 200 gig hard drive. During the autoinstall, when it gets to the portion where it formats the 4 partitions (/, /cache, swap, and /myth), the first 3 are fine but the system hangs when it starts to format the /myth partition. One of 2 things will happen: sometimes it will just freeze at 29% and I have to reboot. Other times, the screen will go black (presumably a screen saver?) but I can't restore the screen. Has anybody encountered a problem like this, or might know how I can fix it? I don't think the rest of the hardware will matter for this, but in case you need to know: Chaintech motherboard with onboard audio, video, ethernet, and tv-out, 512 megs of ram, aopen dvd burner, hauppauge pvr250 tuner, and a standard hauppauge wintv tuner. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:13 pm ] |
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try hitting the shift key every so often so the screen saver doesn't kick in or you could go to another console and issue the command setterm blank=0 |
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| Author: | Greg Frost [ Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:26 pm ] |
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If that doesn't work (it didn't for me) try entering the following at the boot prompt. Code: knoppmyth vga=normal
Before I started doing this it would complete the install about 1 in 8 times (and freeze with the blinky keyboard lights the other times). Since I started doing this I have done about 10 installs without a problem. |
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| Author: | Jomboni [ Thu Jan 06, 2005 11:54 pm ] |
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I'll give both of those a try when I get home from work tomorrow, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks! |
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| Author: | Jomboni [ Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:18 pm ] |
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That seems to have did the trick, I'm staring at the mythtv setup screen now
Thanks a lot! Now... I'm having a couple issues post-installation but I'm going to tinker and hunt around a bit before I start another thread. |
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| Author: | Greg Frost [ Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:15 pm ] |
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Which suggestion did the trick? |
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| Author: | lane [ Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:25 pm ] |
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I'm installing with a new 200gig Maxtor (EIDE, ATA/133, 7200 RPM , the cheap one you find on the internet). Setting the VGA mode to normal fixed the hang at 29% on my system. I then issued the setterm command to fix the screen blank problem that I have had on every other install so I didn't have to sit here while the mamoth thing formats.
The correct command to use for the screen blank is: Code: setterm -blank 0
Thanks for this info! My wife was starting to give me nasty looks when the new HD wasn't working. 
-Lane |
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| Author: | Frangible [ Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:17 pm ] |
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Oh thank god, I had the EXACT same problem. YAY. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:43 am ] |
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And congratulations to you for having your first post be "I found my solution by searching the forum!" 
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| Author: | jsaintrossy [ Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:00 pm ] |
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Worked for me too. Code: knoppmyth vga=normal
Consequently I have the same drive as well: Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB |
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