I've been trying to install LinHES 8.3 on a frontend only system (currently running 8.1) and haven't had any luck.

The install stops at arbitrary points in the process, but usually near the end, raising the "FAILED, rsync" error. I see a heap of lines in dmesg that look like



google tells me that this is likely a hardware issue, so I've tried 3 different USB thumb drives, all with the same end result. I thought it must be a problem with the USB ports on the PC, so I tried installing off the network with a PXE boot (which was a pain), but ended up with the same error (although further along the process). The machine works fine day-to-day with 8.1, so I don't really want to throw it away for a new one just yet.

Is there another way I can try installing it?

I can install into a virtual machine with no problems. I like the idea of installing in a virtual machine, then using clonezilla to copy onto the target machine. The concern I have is that the hardware (nvidia graphics, remote, audio) won't be picked up in the VM install. Is it possible to do that manually once I move the installation across?

What hardware do you have?

I should have mentioned that. It's an e-machines 1401 that I bought back in 2011. It has an AMD Athlon II Neo K325 Dual Core (1.3GHz) and NVIDIA nForce 9200 inside. Like this old listing on Amazon.

First thing

Download memtest86+

http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm

Choose Image for creating bootable USB Drive

Run the test and post back

No problems there. I ran Memtest 86+ v4.20 for about 3.5 hours (about 4.5 cycles through the tests) with no errors.

Sounds good have a look at this post it might be a problem with grub/grub2 . The devs might know the difference between r8.1 and r8.3.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1573406

tl;dr my current suspicion is that the nvidia driver is at the root of my problems and the squashfs errors are misleading.

The long version ...
I was reading up on the possibility of adding an iso to the frontend grub menu (as suggested by RacerX) when I came across loading the iso into RAM. This is nice, it allows the possibility of having several ISOs on the same bootable thumb drive and selecting which one to use. I can check the md5 sum of the iso once its on the drive to reduce the possibility of a bad flash drive.

I used that method to try installing both 8.3 and 8.2 and, rather than raise the squashfs errors, the install always crashed early on with a corrupt screen. Suspecting the video driver I tried the 8.3 install using the "force vesa driver" option. The install completed without any problems!

The new install appeared to work, but was using the vesa driver. I navigated around a few menus in myth to test it, but nothing more. As root I ran xconfig.sh which detected and installed the nvidia driver (nvidia 340, which I believe is the correct one for my hardware). On a reboot (tried several times) the system was obviously using the nvidia driver (higher resolution screen) and crashed soon after X started.

I think I'm closer to figuring out what the issue is, but not much closer to updating LinHES.

did you try updating from 8.1 instead of doing a fresh install? Can you force the old (8.1) video drivers on to the 8.3 system? Does a brand new install of mythbuntu or Ubuntu work?

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Sounds like the same error I saw with R8.3 and R8.2 fresh installs on my friend's machine. It also uses nVidia and died at the same point in installation as yours did. We never found a work-around so we left him at R7.2 for now.

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Looking at the Nvidia docs I see the 9200 is supported.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverRe ... 6884/en-us

How about trying the install with a usb cd/dvd drive to see if that provides a clue....

What does Linux say the video card is? According to this post the "GeForce Nforce 9200" never existed.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topi ... o-request/

In the end he says that Ubuntu is recognizing it as an nForce 8200 and CPU-Z says it's a nForce 720a both are supported with the nVidia driver.

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He said Nvida 9200 on-board graphics on a mini desktop similar to acer revo.it's not a card....

"lspci | grep -i vga" says NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2).

No luck with anything so far. I've tried
1. Upgrading to 8.3 in vesa mode, doing a system upgrade, then running /usr/MythVantage/bin/xconfig.sh (after a reboot). That installs the latest nvidia driver, but the system continues to crash.
2. Installing the older driver on the new system. I edited the PKGBUILD to ignore the linux version, but compiling failed.
3. Installing the newer driver on the 8.1 system. Won't compile.

You have similar hardware to what I'm using (AMD with nvidia on-board graphics). If you're keen you could try 8.1 and cross your fingers?

How about this has something to do with nvidia and the kernel

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