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| Author: | lanceomni [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Format freezes at 20% |
Ok This is my first try at KnoppMyth. My system is as follows: PIII 550 448 SDRAM 120 WD SE HD Generic NIC Matrox Marvel G200-tv SB Live With Auto-Install I get to formating /dev/hda1 with ext2 and it freezes at 20%. I've read that some people freeze at 29% and they use a vga=normal command, which didn't work for me. Any ideas would be great. |
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| Author: | ceenvee703 [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:26 am ] |
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Hopefully others will have suggestions; I would say to try to burn your CD again at a slower speed. You're using parallel ATA and not serial, right? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:42 am ] |
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does the screen blank out before it freezes? |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Problems |
Yes, I am using parallel ATA. The screen does not "blank" out, but there is a black box that appears on the progress bar after a minute or so, but it does not always appear. I will try to burn the iso again at a lower speed. I thank you for your suggestions. |
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| Author: | Greg Frost [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:23 pm ] |
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This may be a stupid question, but you are trying to install R5A16 and not R4V5 arent you? R4 releases used to freeze like this on some peoples hardware. |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | R5A16 |
Yes I am trying to install R5A16. I'm about to give the newly burned iso a try. |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | 20% is so much fun |
So here I am... Laptop in hand typeing to you wonderful folks while I stare at my MythBox sitting at 20%. I burned a new iso, at 12x and 8x, can't make it any slower. So I don't think its the cd. I guess the next step is to start tearing it down piece by piece. |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | update |
Ok. I've tried all of the jumper settings, with and without the DDO and i'm still stuck at 20%. At this point, would it work if I put the HD on another, newer system, loaded KnoppMyth and then loaded the drive into this box??? |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | What if? |
If I just installed KnoppMyth on a seperate computer and then re-installed the HD in this box, would KnoppMyth find and recognize the different hardware? |
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| Author: | tjc [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Format freezes at 20% |
lanceomni wrote: Ok This is my first try at KnoppMyth. My system is as follows:
PIII 550 448 SDRAM 120 WD SE HD Generic NIC Matrox Marvel G200-tv SB Live That's kind of a low spec CPU for this application... Also have we actually had anyone report success using KnoppMyth with that video/capture card? |
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| Author: | Xsecrets [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:33 pm ] |
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not sure about that capture card, but it shouldn't have anything to do with formatting the drive. I was wondering though if the bios on such an old mb supports a 120Gb drive. I'm not really sure what would stop the process during format or copy. |
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| Author: | lanceomni [ Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Card |
As far as the specs, the card is hardware based encoding and doesn't take a lot of specs to run it. The bios has been bypassed with a DDO, which didn't help and therefore removed. I have installed Mandrake and Fedora on a 160 GB with the same MB and Processor in a different box, so I don't know why it is different here. I installed Knoppmyth on a newer Box with this drive and it reports this error after starting Linux: c011ac94 *pde = 00000000 0ops: 000 [#19] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c011ac94>] Not tainted VL1 EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.11.9-chw-2) I figure since the formatting is computer, i'm going to do a manual installation and try and run a new installation on this box. Thanks for your suggestions. |
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