Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
On Tuesday 20 March 2001 08:25, Mr MacCana wrote: Hehe. Guess who wrote that (well, half of it)? :D I know - keep up the good work! Buy the Advanced one when it comes out next month... With Mandy 8b2? At what point of the installation? After the bootloader is run, and an install (any type) is selected. The kernel loads, and then displays an ncurses type screen with `please wait'. At that point it stops completely. Yeah - it's above and beyond me! On a vmware trial, it seems as though the install is trying to load modules for vfat, ide-cdrom etc Have you tried the old :- maybectrl even! altF2 for bash sysinfo altF3 for your installation message log altF4 for kernel messages Sorry to be as useful as T's on a Bull :-) Jason
Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
FYI, I also replaced my old video cards with a single GeForce 2 MX. Thanks, Mike Hello all, I recently replaced the motherboard and CPU of my Pentium II 400 system with an AMD Athlon 900 running a VIA KT133A chipset motherboard. Windows loads and detects the new drivers, and with some fiddling, works fine - so I'm quite confident the hardware itself is installed and working properly. However Linux Mandrake 7.2 just stops (no error messages) after `loading module dependencies [OK]' during bootup. I had a feeling this might have been to do with Mandrake installing a Intel Optimized kernel, so I went to use my install CDs. The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error message provided. That the system is failing is fine, but the lack of error messages in both cases ois fairly poor in my opinion as it makes it difficult for me and anyone else on this list. Could anyone please help me? The situation is getting desperate. Thanks, Mike -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
On Monday 19 March 2001 17:50, Mike wrote:
FYI, I also replaced my old video cards with a single GeForce 2 MX.
Thanks,
Mike
For your peace of mind(??!!) My config consists of
MSI K7T mobo
{FYI!!
$lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305 00:07.0 ISA
bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE
interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB
Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.3 USB
Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16) 00:07.4 Host
bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo
Super AC97/Audio] (rev 50)
$ cat /proc/nv/card0
- Driver Info -
NVRM Version: 1.0-767
-- Card Info --
Model:GeForce2 MX
IRQ: 10
-- AGP Info ---
AGP status: Enabled
AGP Driver: NVIDIA
Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133
SBA: Supported [disabled]
FW: Unsupported [disabled]
Rates:4x 2x 1x [4x]
Registers:0x1f000207:0x0104
}
(ripping along with Quake3 at 90fps with Nvidia's drivers)
AMD t'bird 850
and Mandrake 7.2 from the APC pbook.
Next option! ;-)
"The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error
message provided."
At what point of the installation?
Cheers
Jason Houlihan
RHCE CCNA
Re: [expert] Upgrade from PII to Duron causes 7.2 and install CDs to fail
AMD t'bird 850 and Mandrake 7.2 from the APC pbook. Hehe. Guess who wrote that (well, half of it)? :D Buy the Advanced one when it comes out next month... "The install simply pauses during `Please Wait'. Again ,there's no error message provided." At what point of the installation? After the bootloader is run, and an install (any type) is selected. The kernel loads, and then displays an ncurses type screen with `please wait'. At that point it stops completely. Mike. Cheers Jason Houlihan RHCE CCNA -- -- Mike MacCana Support Consultant C Y B E R S O U R C E Level 9, 140 Queen St Melbourne 3000 Ph : +61 3 9642 5997 Fax: +61 3 9642 5998
