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RE: [SLE] Cannot install 8.0
- From: Jostein Berntsen <jostber@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:40:27 +0200
- Message-id: <3CDA653A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi,
It would be interesting if you could post the error messages that you can see
when doing Ctrl-Alt-F4, after an installation breakdown.
Regards,
Jostein
>===== Original Message From Michael Norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hi
>
>I can boot from the dvd but all of the variuos install
>methods seem to end in failure of one sort or another,
>mainly dropping packages after about one third in,
>hanging at some point or the red "some error" screen.
>Setting PIO to 0 in BIOS made no difference. The cds
>work slightly better than the dvd in the same dvd
>drive (Relysis) but not reliably enogh to complete an
>install.
>
>Using the cds in my HP cdrw drive throughs up less
>errors still but I've still not been able to complete
>an install. I did try doing a trial install of 7.3
>into different partitions than my main 7.3 set up and
>upgrading that to 8.0 using the cds in th cdrw. It
>seemed to work once but when I eventually rebooted to
>it I got kernel error messages including an oops and a
>kernel panic. At this point and after manay many hours
>of aborted installations I gave up and deleted the
>lot. LILO is on the mbr by the way and when I do a
>test install I add the new kernel using my main set
>up. Usually works.
>
>Mike
>
>I'll need to do the fresh 7.3 update to 8.0 again and
>log all the errors and post back.
>--- Jostein Berntsen <jostber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have experienced some of the same problems. While
>> I had not any problems
>> installing 7.1 and 7.3 and booting on CD/DVDs, 8.0
>> seems to be very picky on
>> the hardware setup or BIOS something somewhere.
>> Because of the Pioneer problem
>> 8.0 would not boot on my DVD at all, so I had to use
>> the CD's.
>>
>> My partial solution was to go into the BIOS and set
>> the PIO mode for the
>> CD-ROM to 0. Then I escaped the red dialog box
>> saying 'Error occured...', when
>> YasT rebooted after installing about 400 of 700
>> packages. Then the packages
>> from CD1 was installed, but YaST did not ask for CD
>> 2 or 3 so I had to install
>> some packages after the installation had finished,
>> among them Koffice. After
>> that I was able to get the system back and running.
>>
>> Since you dual-boot you might also check where Lilo
>> is installed, and if Grub
>> or some Windows bootloader is causing problems for
>> the installation.
>>
>> Hope this wil be some help for you...
>>
>> Some input links:
>>
>>
>http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_bootdiskette80.html
>>
>http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jostein
>>
>
>
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It would be interesting if you could post the error messages that you can see
when doing Ctrl-Alt-F4, after an installation breakdown.
Regards,
Jostein
>===== Original Message From Michael Norman <michaeltnorman@xxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hi
>
>I can boot from the dvd but all of the variuos install
>methods seem to end in failure of one sort or another,
>mainly dropping packages after about one third in,
>hanging at some point or the red "some error" screen.
>Setting PIO to 0 in BIOS made no difference. The cds
>work slightly better than the dvd in the same dvd
>drive (Relysis) but not reliably enogh to complete an
>install.
>
>Using the cds in my HP cdrw drive throughs up less
>errors still but I've still not been able to complete
>an install. I did try doing a trial install of 7.3
>into different partitions than my main 7.3 set up and
>upgrading that to 8.0 using the cds in th cdrw. It
>seemed to work once but when I eventually rebooted to
>it I got kernel error messages including an oops and a
>kernel panic. At this point and after manay many hours
>of aborted installations I gave up and deleted the
>lot. LILO is on the mbr by the way and when I do a
>test install I add the new kernel using my main set
>up. Usually works.
>
>Mike
>
>I'll need to do the fresh 7.3 update to 8.0 again and
>log all the errors and post back.
>--- Jostein Berntsen <jostber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have experienced some of the same problems. While
>> I had not any problems
>> installing 7.1 and 7.3 and booting on CD/DVDs, 8.0
>> seems to be very picky on
>> the hardware setup or BIOS something somewhere.
>> Because of the Pioneer problem
>> 8.0 would not boot on my DVD at all, so I had to use
>> the CD's.
>>
>> My partial solution was to go into the BIOS and set
>> the PIO mode for the
>> CD-ROM to 0. Then I escaped the red dialog box
>> saying 'Error occured...', when
>> YasT rebooted after installing about 400 of 700
>> packages. Then the packages
>> from CD1 was installed, but YaST did not ask for CD
>> 2 or 3 so I had to install
>> some packages after the installation had finished,
>> among them Koffice. After
>> that I was able to get the system back and running.
>>
>> Since you dual-boot you might also check where Lilo
>> is installed, and if Grub
>> or some Windows bootloader is causing problems for
>> the installation.
>>
>> Hope this wil be some help for you...
>>
>> Some input links:
>>
>>
>http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_bootdiskette80.html
>>
>http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jostein
>>
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness
>http://health.yahoo.com
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