On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:44, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

Jack Morgan wrote:

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I'm attemping to install my PC using the SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD1.iso. The CD just hangs after searching for info file...

Any suggustions?

Have you tested if the download was 100% ok? try using md5sum to verify Greetings,

Yes, I forgot to mention that I used the CD to install my laptop so I know it works. Also, I just installed Gentoo on the PC so I know everything works there too. I'm just not sure how to debug this. I'm sure this install CD isn't happy with some hardware I have. Jack

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:49, Marcel Mourguiart wrote:

Try cleaning the cd ??? or no acpi ??

No luck

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 20:48, Jack Morgan wrote:

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:44, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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Jack Morgan wrote:

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I'm attemping to install my PC using the SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD1.iso. The CD just hangs after searching for info file...

Any suggustions?

Have you tested if the download was 100% ok? try using md5sum to verify Greetings,

Yes, I forgot to mention that I used the CD to install my laptop so I know it works. Also, I just installed Gentoo on the PC so I know everything works there too. I'm just not sure how to debug this. I'm sure this install CD isn't happy with some hardware I have.

Jack

Hi Jack Have you tried with failsafe option on the install CD startup? It should remove the more 'dangerous' features of the installation kernel. If that works, it will be a case of isolating the option that's causing the hang from the others. My (installed) failsafe option look like this. kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 If you want to see the full list of parameters, take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. There are quite a few! Good luck Pete

Hi, On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Jack Morgan wrote:

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:01, Pete Connolly wrote:

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Have you tried with failsafe option on the install CD startup? It should remove the more 'dangerous' features of the installation kernel. If that works, it will be a case of isolating the option that's causing the hang from the others. My (installed) failsafe option look like this.

kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3

Yup, tried all options available from the install menu. I guess I'll have to look more into this.

Last hint; try "Failsafe" and add irqpoll as additional parameter. What is your hardware? Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)

Hi, On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Jack Morgan wrote:

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:25, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

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Last hint; try "Failsafe" and add irqpoll as additional parameter.

Installation -- Safe Setting on the 10.0 CD includes irqpoll as an option.

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What is your hardware?

Tyan motherboard with a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card.

So if "irqpoll" does not help: try to switch to console 4 in time and report the last messages. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 12:59, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Switch to tty4 and have a look at the kernel messages...

Can't as the system is hung/frozen. Thanks

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:10, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

Youve said it freezes at the point where it tries to find the info file. You have plenty of time before that to switch consoles...

Right.. Looks like it's hanging on the DAC960 driver. How can I disable loading the scsi subsystem when booting? I tried add noscsi as a boot option. Thanks

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:46, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

This could be a problem with SMP.. have you tried the option *nosmp* or *max_cpus=0*? Probably not the best trick to install the computer but worth a try

No luck. I think the DAC960 driver has issues on the 10.0 CD1. I'm going to try the 9.3 CD1 and see if that helps. Thanks, Jack