Guest Mahneraki Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Good Morning First of all I wanna say that Mandrake rocks an im lovin it. I downloaded Mandriva and have a realy huge problem. When i boot from CD, the Menu shows up where i can press Enter, F1 or F2. (For Help) When I press Enter the screen where normaly the pinguin with a smile shoud com stays black. No matter how long i wait. I Tried it on two different PC-Systems, and on both it worked, but on mine it wont.! Its driving me nuts. Here are my Specs: Asus A8V Deluxe AMD 64 3500+ 1GB Corsair 3200 RAM 6800GT 1x WD Raptor SATA on wich is winxp installed and also mandriva should be 2x Samsung 160GB DVD-Burner Plextor DVD Rom Lite on (from which i am installing) I am pretty sure it has something to do with the SATA. But can anyone help me and say what it is? Please Mahneraki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mahneraki Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 I reset the bios options and unpluged all usb devices. But it still dont wanna start the install. Please help me somewone, or even try. I am a member and payd for it. I really want to give Mandrake a try cos I realy want to give linux a try!!! PLEASE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 (edited) I reset the bios options and unpluged all usb devices. But it still dont wanna start the install. Please help me somewone, or even try. I am a member and payd for it. I really want to give Mandrake a try cos I realy want to give linux a try!!! PLEASE <{POST_SNAPBACK}> try making a boot disk i have install CD's not the dvd . put the cd into a windows box and you'll see a link to make a boot disk . i have found booting from a floppy gets some tricky installs from dvd drives to work if that doesn't work... using windows you want to run /dosutils/rawwrite then point to the 1.4 img file in /install/images Edited May 1, 2005 by ddmcse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mahneraki Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 I reset the bios options and unpluged all usb devices. But it still dont wanna start the install. Please help me somewone, or even try. I am a member and payd for it. I really want to give Mandrake a try cos I realy want to give linux a try!!! PLEASE <{POST_SNAPBACK}> try making a boot disk i have install CD's not the dvd . put the cd into a windows box and you'll see a link to make a boot disk . i have found booting from a floppy gets some tricky installs from dvd drives to work if that doesn't work... using windows you want to run /dosutils/rawwrite then point to the 1.4 img file in /install/images <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope, still nothing is happening. Tryed both ways. Ï am relly getting pissed! Have no ideas what else to try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mahneraki Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 I also tried the text install. On this it too hangs. Just stops withount any infos. Just Dead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 try hitting F1 at the first screen and typing 'linux noapic' . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bdickson2000 Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 try hitting F1 at the first screen and typing 'linux noapic' . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try F1, then 'linux expert text noapic'. Works most of the time, and gives you options you don't get without expert. BD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest milford Posted June 5, 2005 Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 In Bios, disable USB2 controllers, power off your PC, power on and retry setup. It will work, but as soon as you enable USB2 in Bios even after setup is completed, boot will hang with a black screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 5, 2005 Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 just guessing, but did you download mandriva 64-bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 I had no problems re SATA and AMD64 in setting up my young friends computer just using the normal Mandriva2005-LE version and not the Mandriva 64 version and it is running AOK as we speak. I suspect that you have not enabled SATA in the BIOS. Some boards have SATA disabled by default. Check that first. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 If disabling ACPI and all the rest fail, then try booting a. From the second Mandy CD, not the first one. b. Booting first "Smart Boot Manager": http://btmgr.webframe.org/ Boot from the SBM CD, and move the boot menu choice down to your CD-ROM. Now don't hit enter, just replace the CD with the first (or second) Mandy CD, let it in for a while so the drive will spin it, and then hit enter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Install Fedora Core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 (edited) How will Fedora core fix his problem ??? If he can´t get Mandriva installed, it is unlikely he will be able to install Fedora. Are you sure such a comment realy helps or contributes ???. Cheers. John. Edited June 9, 2005 by AussieJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 2 SATA drives here (and no IDE, just optical IDE devices), they run perfectly well with 2005LE/ Arch Linux 0.7/ Kanotix 2005.3 So I'm with John, adjust your BIOS settings and set there "PnP OS" to disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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