On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 12:17, Lanman wrote: > I've been seeing some strange activity going when trying to install > Mandrake 10.0 or 10.1CE on a few older systems and I was wondering if > anyone here had seen the same thing? > > Both systems are running AMD CPU's, and had previously had Mandrake 9.2 > on them. When attempting to start an install from 10.0 or 10.1CE, the > systems both boot from the CD, but both of them either freeze before the > first install panel pops up or fail for no apparent reason after > pressing Enter, or manually setting 'linux noapic nolapic' from the 'F1' > boot options console. > > The console screen is replaced by very dark blue screen (as if the > installer couldn't load the first graphics panel where you would select > the keyboard layout. > > In some cases, I've had partial success in getting to the International > screen by adjusting P'n'P or APM options in the BIOS of either system, > but once a keyboard layout is selected, the system shows me that same > dark blue screen.
I've had almost the exact same experience with mdk10 on an FIC AU13 system board with a Crush 18G Nforce2 chipset. Juggling the acpi options helped but still wouldn't allow installation. It seemed related to SATA on the mobo. 9.2 went in, 10 official did not. > > I've tried both systems with different AGP cards and I've run full > memtests on both. I've updated the BIOS on both and still no joy. If you have Nforce you are going down a dead end road; it's a mobo related problem. (if not it's something else, but still probably mobo related) 9.2 will install on Nforce mobos, 10 generally will not. I hope that 10.1 has not been rushed out the door too fast and that it will install to this crop of Nforce boards here, but I have not had time to do a test install and Warly has already submitted the first "official" 10.1 cds for installation testing. > > One is an Asus board (Slot A - K7 Athlon 650Mhz. First generation > Athlon), while the other is an ECS - K7VMM board (Socket A - 750Mhz. > Duron). > > So far, I've been trying AGP cards and I'm currently thinking of > slapping in a PCI card to see what happens. On the ECS board, a text > mode install shows me the kernel booting, but it freezes at a line which > says; > > 'ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002' > > While the Asus board freezes when it's ; > > 'Calibrating delay loop....' and doesn't even finish the line by > displaying the BOGOMips result. > > Does anyone have some constructive suggestions other than replacing the > hardware? Like I mentioned earlier both have a version of Mandrake > installed and have been running for some time on 9.2 or 9.1, so hardware > shouldn't be the issue. I've re-burned the CD's for 10.0 and 10.1 and > I've run the MD5sum on the finished CD's - which checked out fine. Hmmmm...you don't have Nforce but the symptoms are looking very similar to what I was seeing. The BEST shot you have is to file a ***tload of bug reports on 10.1; right now. You have a slim window of opportunity and I'm not talking days, I'm talking hours; maybe 42 or 72 or a little more if you're lucky. In that case you may be able to get these problems corrected in another set of installation cd's for 10.1. Try it....good luck buddy... LX -- ************************************************ Trouble with sound? Dump Alsa with an upgrade to the best: get your free high quality OSS drivers at www.opensound.com Superior features, superior API, better support. ************************************************
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