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| Author: | buddy213 [ Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Boot freezes after install, before post-install |
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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| Author: | cesman [ 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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| Author: | buddy213 [ 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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| Author: | cesman [ 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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| Author: | buddy213 [ 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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| Author: | ZMoney [ Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Same thing |
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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| Author: | scarceas [ 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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| Author: | ZMoney [ 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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