[opensuse] Abit BP6 won't install SuSE v9.2 through 10.2
Hello. I've been using SuSE since v5.3. I run it on pretty much everything including my PowerBook Walstreet, etc. I've got an old Abit BP6 Dual Celeron motherboard. I know that at one point in time I had SuSE running on it(v9.1 I think) with 2 Celeron 400Mhz processors. Recently, I dug it out and decided to try overclocking some 366 chips. I've had some success, but I can't get any version of SuSE from v9.2 to current to install on it. v10.2 locks up the machine at the hardware detection, v10.0 locks up at the setup menus, and the others don't want to go either. What's weird is that I have installed both Vector Linux v5.8, which uses kernel v2.6.18.5, and Kubuntu v6.06, which uses kernel v2.6.17. Both of those correctly identified the system as smp and both ran it fine stock speed and overclocked to 506Mhz. Does anyone have any idea why I can't get SuSE to install? I had the rescue from v9.3 running once, but not the install. Any help will be greatly appriciated. Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
|From: Larry Stotler |Subject: [opensuse] Abit BP6 won't install SuSE v9.2 through 10.2 : |I've got an old Abit BP6 Dual Celeron motherboard. I know |that at one point in time I had SuSE running on it(v9.1 I |think) with 2 Celeron 400Mhz processors. Recently, I dug it |out and decided to try overclocking some 366 chips. I've had |some success, but I can't get any version of SuSE from v9.2 to |current to install on it. Does it have serial console? I've had problems installing any suse higher than 9.3 on old boxes with PCI gfx cards. removing the card and installing via serial console have fixed it (db9 serial cable - minicom from another linux). You probably have some old hardware no longer supported clogging up. -- MortenB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 26 March 2007, Larry Stotler wrote:
Hello. I've been using SuSE since v5.3. I run it on pretty much everything including my PowerBook Walstreet, etc.
I've got an old Abit BP6 Dual Celeron motherboard. I know that at one point in time I had SuSE running on it(v9.1 I think) with 2 Celeron 400Mhz processors. Recently, I dug it out and decided to try overclocking some 366 chips. I've had some success, but I can't get any version of SuSE from v9.2 to current to install on it. v10.2 locks up the machine at the hardware detection, v10.0 locks up at the setup menus, and the others don't want to go either. What's weird is that I have installed both Vector Linux v5.8, which uses kernel v2.6.18.5, and Kubuntu v6.06, which uses kernel v2.6.17. Both of those correctly identified the system as smp and both ran it fine stock speed and overclocked to 506Mhz. Does anyone have any idea why I can't get SuSE to install? I had the rescue from v9.3 running once, but not the install. Any help will be greatly appriciated. Thanx
I'm running 10.1 on my bp6. Works fine. Was planning to upgrade to 10.2 one of these days. The only thing I found necessary was to add the following to the grub menu.lst acpi=force 10.1 runs this machine better than any prior version of Suse. I used to get the weird processor errors that bp6 boards are famous for, but not any more. Even when I did get these errors it works fine. See also: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2000/08/26/0005.html -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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