MoonChild Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 i have search the forum and found numerous people having similar problems. My system: Pentium4 2.6GHz 512MB dual channel 400MHz 120GB hard drive Lite-on LTR-52327S CD Writer JLMS DVD-Rom Booting into CD1... Everything works fine until the installation procedure tries to load the image file into memory (first thing after the basic hardware detection). That's where I get the freeze. Checking the messages only gives an error about not able to access hdb... hmm... Tried passing out my own parameters... noapci - No change nodma - No change noapci nodma - No change ide2=0x180,0x386 - No change ACPI is disabled in the BIOS as well (also tried with it enabled and only disabled in the installer). The error remains the same no matter what. I may need to add that I checked the MD5 sums as well as burn at slow speeds (I have 3 copies of MDK9.2 so far). Any ideas on what I might do next? Please note I have no floppy disk or the bandwidth to do the ftp install. Michalis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 Make sure the jumper pins on the drives are set correctly. It also helps to have the cd/dvd drives on the same cable. Make sure plug and play is turned off in the bios. Unplug any externall USB things you have. Well at least as many as you can since most new MB only support USB keyboards and mice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afunke Posted January 2, 2004 Report Share Posted January 2, 2004 noapci - No changenodma - No change noapci nodma - No change ide2=0x180,0x386 - No change There is a spelling mistake above ("noapci"). Perhaps you wanted to write: noapic (apic stands for "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller") OTOH, even if you turn off ACPI in BIOS, the Linux kernel may try to turn it on again if it detects a ACPI capable MB, so you need to provide the following command as well: acpi=off (acpi stands for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") A third possibility is turning off local apic: nolapic And you may combine 4 or more options: linux noapic nolapic acpi=off nodma Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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