On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:49, elijah r. wrote: > > I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same > > installer, as on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? > > I am pretty sure it is exactly the same, but it grabs installation > packages from the internet instead of from the local CD/DVDs. > Also, I wasn't sure whether you had tried passing the "acpi=off" > parameter to installation bootloaders, or just to the bootloaders on > your hard disk after installation.
> > I've had some issues with certain motherboards not even booting off of > installation CD/DVDs unless I pass something like "acpi=off noapic" to > the boot options. > > So, if the boot prompt for some installation CD is is "boot: " you > usually just type "linux acpi=off noapic" or "vmlinuz acpi=off noapic" > or something along those lines. Well I've got Fedora 8 booted up on this new machine at the moment, and am downloading the debian-4.0r3-i386-netinst.iso. As I previously said, to boot post-install Fedora 8, I had to stop some services from being started, and looking in /boot/grub/grub.conf, it seems like I'd had to add both noapic, and nolapic to the kernel line. can't say that I'm too clued up on acpi, even though reading the man pages. > > As for the other issues you have had, such as with KDM working/not > working and the runlevels failing, they seem erratic, which many times > can be hardware-related. What kind of processor do you have? Have > you run memtest on your memory? Have you tested your hard disk to > make sure it doesn't have bad blocks or other errors? Processor is AMD Athlon 64 3800+, which is one of the 3 suggested for the Asus M2N-X Plus mobo. I havn't run memtest on the memory yet. The memory comprise of 2x1GB of Crucial Ballistix, which Crucial say is fine for this mobo. Nigel. > > Cheers, > Elijah > -- > http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]