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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:03 pm 
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I am trying to install R5A16. During the initial hardware configuration, I get an Error: CLE266 VGA Adaptor not found. or something. The screen changes before I have a chance to read it all. I then go through the auto-install procedure.

At the end of the install right before it tells me I need to reboot. I get a lot of random text output (none of it is left justified, just kinda thrown on the screen). Again, it gets cleared before I can read much of it. I did see "cant stat ..."

I reboot anyway and remove the CD... after BIOS, it shows "PCI Device Listing ..." (then the listing). Afterwhich:

Verifying DMI Pool Data .................
Boot from CD:

and this is where it just hangs there. No CD in the drive, nor should there be.


HW:
ASUS A7N8x-E Deluxe mobo
AMD AthlonXP 2500+
512 MB ram
Seagate 7200.7 120 GB /hda
Seagate 7200.8 300 GB /hdb
Seagate 80 GB SATA drive
PVR-250
PVR-250MCE
D-Link wireless PCI card
nVidia FX5200 AGP card (svid,dvi,vga)


I have tried the install on my 27" Sony WEGA with svideo connection, and tv<ENTER> at initial prompt. no luck.
I have tried with my Dell 2001FP flat-screen computer monitor with VGA, same problem.
I have tried unattaching the SATA drive, just because. No luck.

Any ideas?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:50 pm 
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Perhaps after installing, you should set your BIOS to boot from the hard drive.... Don't worry about the errors you saw (unless you got cloop errors).

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:27 pm 
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good suggestion, just tried that. Now it hangs after "Verifying DMI Pool Data ............."

I take it this behaviour hasn't been seen before?


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:09 am 
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This is a hardware issue before KnoppMyth even starts to boot. If memory serves someone else had the same problem months and months ago.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:57 am 
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Ah, so it was....

I took out the PVR-250, Dlink wireless pci, SATA drive, and 300GB drive. Now KnoppMyth installs with 'auto-install' just fine. I'll do some one-by-one installs tomorrow so I can find the culprit. Too tired to keep at it tonight, looks like i'll be using the VCR to record Tour de France tomorrow morning :)

thanks cesman


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:51 pm 
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I just tried an auto-install with R5A16 and get the exact same error. I don't know if i got the flashing/unformatted text you got but i may have missed it. If you find out anything about this please post. I'll do the same.

Hardware:
Mobo: Asuse A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8GHz
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
pcHDTV HD-3000
512MB RAM


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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:45 pm 
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I'm having, I think, a similar issue... Also an Asus board, but mine is the A7N266-C (nForce 415D).

I started with a manual installation, because I was trying to dual boot.
After running the installation, I would reboot to the hard drive and nothing would happen.

I'm a Linux idiot. So I went with something I'm more comfortable with: I booted DOS and used Ranish partition manager to make my windows partition active, and it booted fine. That rules out the hardware as being defective, as some have suggested.

Then I thought I would go ahead and wipe it out, and see if an auto-install would work.

At the apparent end of the install, I get the message that the auto-install failed. No other details are given.

Now I note that many of us are using Asus nforce boards here, and another fellow with an A7N266 posted this in another thread:

Evildick wrote:
There was two lines at the very beginning of lilo.conf that had 'part:' in the beginning, the rest I don't remember. I removed those just to see what happened, saved the file and did a 'lilo -v'. System booted right into linux and started the configuration (it almost made me cry, lol).


I'm going to test it. I'm such a linux noob it will take me hours to find lilo.conf and figure out how to edit it. (update I don't think I have a lilo.conf file. I tried this:
Boot off the CD.
Select option 6 to quit.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1
lilo -v

but I get an error:
/etc/lilo.conf: no such file or directory

I tried it again, auto-install, and it just worked. Dunno what was so different about it this time, but it worked.


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:31 pm 
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After a few trys i ended up unplugging my second hard drive and bam it booted. I guess i'll just format it and install it manually...

there are a few other threads on this exact issue so maybe the mods should join them or something.


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