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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
Trying to install a Linux OS on my new system:
AMD Opteron 144 Asus A8R-MVP Corsair Value RAM 512x2 MB Htachi 160 GB PATA drive Tried Fedora Core 4 for AMD 64, starts to boot, and it hangs after a few messages, with a "Kernel Panic" and some gibberish messages Tried the Ubuntu live and install CDs, and it hung after starting to boot. Any clues? I've flashed to the latest BIOS too. Regards |
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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
For fedora core 4, this strange trick worked for me on dual opteron
system: when you get to the boot: prompt type "linux mediacheck" without the quotes. The install then proceeds normally. Cheers Caveat Emptor wrote: Trying to install a Linux OS on my new system: AMD Opteron 144 Asus A8R-MVP Corsair Value RAM 512x2 MB Htachi 160 GB PATA drive Tried Fedora Core 4 for AMD 64, starts to boot, and it hangs after a few messages, with a "Kernel Panic" and some gibberish messages Tried the Ubuntu live and install CDs, and it hung after starting to boot. Any clues? I've flashed to the latest BIOS too. Regards |
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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
Thanks! I tried it at it worked once. I was able to install FC4.
Now, in playing around and trying to get the ethernet card to work, I accidentally replaced all my kernel versions with a new one 2.6.15-1.1828, and it refuses to boot, restarting the computer in an infinite loop. Now, when I try to boot with the same media I used last week, it hangs. And this time "linux mediacheck", or for that matter any kernel parameters I pass are being ignored. Hangs as before with a kernel panic and warning that it can't mount some part of the file system. Any idea why? I've spen the entire last week, trying to get it to work. No wonder Windows is still popular. |
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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
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It shouldn't have "replaced" your other kernel. Can you still get to the grub menu? Try hitting a key there and you should get the full menu with the other kernel/s listed. You should also still be able to boot from the cd? Cheers Caveat Emptor wrote: Thanks! I tried it at it worked once. I was able to install FC4. Now, in playing around and trying to get the ethernet card to work, I accidentally replaced all my kernel versions with a new one 2.6.15-1.1828, and it refuses to boot, restarting the computer in an infinite loop. Now, when I try to boot with the same media I used last week, it hangs. And this time "linux mediacheck", or for that matter any kernel parameters I pass are being ignored. Hangs as before with a kernel panic and warning that it can't mount some part of the file system. Any idea why? I've spen the entire last week, trying to get it to work. No wonder Windows is still popular. |
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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
Thnaks,
Couldn't boot from the CD until I tried the "garbage" trick which I read o some other board. (basiclaly on boot from media, type some gibberish and enter, thn proceed to boot as normal) Ended up reinstalling the damn thing one more time. trying to get a kernel or build one that will work with my sound and gigabit ethernet card, without success. If I install a kernel (not replace this time ) it does not boot up, althout the stock FC4 kernel does. Any idea what could be wrong. - If I install a prebuilt rpm of a kernel, it just reboots after starrting to boot - I just built my own kernel using rpmbuild, and it hangs, with a "VFS: Cannot open root device 'LVM00/root" or unknown block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" Any thougts? |
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Installation boot problems on Opteron 144, Asus A8R-MVP system
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I don't know whether it is a really good idea to have the root partition on a volume? Try putting in the actual device in grub.conf instead of the "root=LABEL=" You might try a different disk partitioning scheme where the root partition is not on a volume since that driver would not load until later in the boot process. Cheers Caveat Emptor wrote: Thnaks, Couldn't boot from the CD until I tried the "garbage" trick which I read o some other board. (basiclaly on boot from media, type some gibberish and enter, thn proceed to boot as normal) Ended up reinstalling the damn thing one more time. trying to get a kernel or build one that will work with my sound and gigabit ethernet card, without success. If I install a kernel (not replace this time ) it does not boot up, althout the stock FC4 kernel does. Any idea what could be wrong. - If I install a prebuilt rpm of a kernel, it just reboots after starrting to boot - I just built my own kernel using rpmbuild, and it hangs, with a "VFS: Cannot open root device 'LVM00/root" or unknown block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)" Any thougts? |
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