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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2004 4:27 am 
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Heya,

Does anyone know what could be going on here?

I use the standard automated install, letting it have its way with my hard drive. It gets to about 75% copied to the hard drive, then the screen goes black. When I press a key, I get the top third of the screen re-drawn and the keyboard's Caps Lock and Scroll Lock LEDs start flashing on and off once a second.

Hardware:
Sapphire 9100 Motherboard
1.8GHz P4, 250MB RAM, no capture card (yet)
Using onboard sound, video, net, etc.

Thanks in advance...


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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2004 10:28 pm 
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Weird problem like that would lead me to try the disk in another computer, if not possible try burning another disk. I've seen weirdness like that duing Linux installs in the past and it turned out the CD I cut from ISOs were bad.

Worth a try...


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 12:07 am 
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The screen blanking is normal since a key hasn't been pressed in X period of time.

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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 11:25 am 
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I had this very same problem on my first install today.

I removed a PCI modem from the PC (which was obviously of no use to Myth), and I switched from using a Hitachi DVD drive to a plain CD drive, and it worked.

Not sure if these helped, or if I was just unlucky the first time.

Hope this helps....

Andy.


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 10:20 pm 
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I had the R4V3 auto install hang a couple of times (not just screen-save) during the copy-files phase.

I then checked the iso md5sum which was fine.

I tried the install a 3rd time and went fine!

JohnO.


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 10:42 pm 
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My R4V3 install was clean and after the reboot I was just watching live TV and everything seemed fine. When I rebooted it hung after the line beginning with "Starting web server" and the same LED's were flashing. I tried two installs tonight and it happened both times. I think my hardware is OK because it worked fine with R4V2. Any suggestions?


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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 4:06 am 
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I've had the same problem. When installing at the boot: prompt the vga=normal option helped.


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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 7:47 am 
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csokt: I tried typing 'vga=normal', but it's not an option.

I normally use 'tv' as the only boot option.

Where do you get to set 'vga=normal'?

Cheers,


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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:41 am 
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At the boot prompt type:

knoppmyth vga=normal
or
tv vga=normal

Tibor


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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:26 am 
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csokt wrote:
At the boot prompt type:
tv vga=normal


Woohoo! It worked!

I'm typing this from 'lynx' running under KnoppMyth.

Thanks a million.

(now onto getting it working with ATI video)


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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2004 10:14 pm 
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tv vga=normal seems to be working better for me as well, thanks!!


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PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:35 pm 
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For what it's worth:

I saw these symptoms with a semi-faulty CD-ROm Drive.

The drive worked well enough under normal circumstances.. but for whatever reason it only works 50/50 under linux


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