Installation problems with Suse 9.0 64 bit
Hi Guys, I have a Biostar ideq 200p computer containing an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, Nvidia Nforce3 chipset and a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 mx graphics card. Booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation" causes the machine to hang after the message "starting hardware detection" Picking "Safe Settings" has the same result Using text mode instead causes it to lock up at "searching for Adding a floppy disk gets past this problem, and I can choose language etc. 5 OKs later the machine again locks up, this time saying starting yast... I have tried turning off all the on-board peripherals appart from the usb controller that I need for my mouse. It hasn't made any difference. I also tried the switch hdc=cdrom suggested in the manual, since my CDROM is a master on the second ide interface, and there is only 1 hard disk on the primary ide channel. However that made no noticeable difference. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Jeremy Sonander. Saros Technology Limited. The Spirella Building, Bridge Road, Letchworth, SG6 4ET. Tel 01462 476111, Fax 01462 476112. For Support email support@saros.co.uk
Jeremy Sonander
Hi Guys,
I have a Biostar ideq 200p computer containing an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, Nvidia Nforce3 chipset and a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 mx graphics card.
Booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation" causes the machine to hang after the message "starting hardware detection"
Two options: - disable USB Legacy support - boot with "poll=idle" added at the default installation prompt Both indicate a BIOS bug, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
HI Andreas, Disabling USB legacy support was the one, great suggestion! I switched all the on-board periperals back on without problems, and I can now use the GUI installation as well. Even the floppy disk is no longer necessary. Thank you very much for your help. Jeremy. On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:32 pm, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jeremy Sonander
writes: Hi Guys,
I have a Biostar ideq 200p computer containing an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, Nvidia Nforce3 chipset and a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 mx graphics card.
Booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation" causes the machine to hang after the message "starting hardware detection"
Two options: - disable USB Legacy support - boot with "poll=idle" added at the default installation prompt
Both indicate a BIOS bug,
Andreas
-- Jeremy Sonander. Saros Technology Limited. The Spirella Building, Bridge Road, Letchworth, SG6 4ET. Tel 01462 476111, Fax 01462 476112. For Support email support@saros.co.uk
Hello Jeremy, My AMD Athlon with Shuttle Mainboard is working fine since yesterday. but .... many problems I had before. My Hardware is: Mainboard: Shuttle AN5OR Shipset: NVIDIA nForce3 150 Prozessor: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ SATA RAID Controller Sil3112A with SATA HD ST3160023AS (Seagate?) Video: ATI RV350 AP SCSI-Controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 with SCSI-HD and WANGTEK Streamer 250 MB 2 Ethernet controller onbord 1 PCI Ethernet controller DVD-Rom and DVD-RW and, and, and many other interfaces and peripherals. For internet I use a old ELSA-Modem basic RS-232. On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jeremy Sonander wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a Biostar ideq 200p computer containing an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU, Nvidia Nforce3 chipset and a Nvidia Geforce 4 440 mx graphics card.
Booting from the DVD and selecting "Installation" causes the machine to hang after the message "starting hardware detection" Yes, by me also the same.
Did you try the manual installation mode? By me it helps: I did take the Manual Installation and could load the required kernel modules on confirmation. But there are other problems with DMA-Mode for Harddisk and pppd and arecord and Reiserfs. I take from now ext2 and ext3. Its saver after crash through DMA. The switch to DMA by booting before going to the runlevels is to early. If I switch on after hwscan, then is the booting alright with UDMA2-Mode. By me the DMA is off during boot normally. With DMA for IDE I can detect a fast speed for file operations. Without DMA the maschine is slower than a 166MHz PENTIUM I during file operations (copy 1 GByte files from a partition to another). Now I have a fine speed and I'am happy that the other things work too. pppd: It helps the option "novj". arecord: I take instead wavrec from package wavplay. Sound is OK. Network runs for 2 Interface (one onboard is not supported). It was 7 weeks hard work to get this Linux/WinXP-System on 64-Bit platform. 5 weeks for a few hardware booting problems, USB on front side and internal softmodem. And 2 weeks for installing, testing the system. Now I can configure the last things of application software and compilers (Visual Eiffel 4.1). I hope, it helps for your problem. Please excuse me for my bad english. Gruss Lothar Hansche Berlin, Germany
Hi Lothar, This sounds interesting. Can you tell me how to control when in the boot process DMA is turned on? Thanks, Jeremy.
If I switch on after hwscan, then is the booting alright with UDMA2-Mode. By me the DMA is off during boot normally.
With DMA for IDE I can detect a fast speed for file operations. Without DMA the maschine is slower than a 166MHz PENTIUM I during file operations (copy 1 GByte files from a partition to another).
Now I have a fine speed and I'am happy that the other things work too.
pppd: It helps the option "novj".
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Andreas Jaeger
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Jeremy Sonander
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Lothar Hansche