Guest JohnMarshall Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 Hi all. Bit new to this Linux. Tried to install 2005le to my box and it failed miserably. Any help will be appreciated. Here's what happened: Got a Gigabyte GA-7n400pro mobo with 3 hard drive configs: 1 SATA -Silicon Image controller (only 1 partition, winxp), 2 drives set up as Raid0 - ITE Gigaraid (only 1 partition, winxp) and 1 IDE (master IDE secondary) for Linux. Vid card is Asus GF3 ti200. Started DVD install with a clean HD, agreed to the licence and then window states installing ITE driver, followed by installing SI driver. Cool. 15 minutes later still at SI install screen. So I rebooted and started again, this time disabling the SATA in the bios. Got up to installing ITE driver and 15 minutes later still at same screen. Rebooted, disabled ITE in bios. Started fresh install, used defaults for everything, got through complete install, removed DVD and rebooted (SATA and ITE still disabled). Went through boot screen and then met with terminal (text) window asking to login, typed username and password, nothing happened, still in text mode. Typed 'kde' and then system started to load up. Dont know what happened but all I got was a white screen with a heap of black lines running acress the bottom 1/4 of the screen. What the ??? Went through this complete procedure 3 times with the same result. Q. Whats going on? How can I get SATA and ITE Raid up and running at Install? Had Xandros 3 previously installed on same system without a hitch. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 2, 2005 Report Share Posted June 2, 2005 Do ctrl-alt-f1 (or f2) for error messages when the system hangs during the install (ctrl-alt-f7 brings you back to the gui). X problem. Log in as root (by typing: root and your root password). Then do XFdrake and adjust the monitor settings to fit your screen. Then logout (type: exit), login as your normal user and type: startx startkde (if you want to startup kde). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnMarshall Posted June 3, 2005 Report Share Posted June 3, 2005 Thanks for that devries, attached two screen shots to show where it freezes (sata and raid enabled in bios). The first one is using the F3 function and the second one is F4 at the same stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JohnMarshall Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Did a lot more research and found heaps of info in the hints and tips area. Narrowed it down and ended up trying the install with "linux noapic" and it installed fine. Thanks to all those contributors to the forums. This can probably be closed now. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted June 4, 2005 Report Share Posted June 4, 2005 Cool. I just noticed this thread and was reading from the top and was about to suggest just that and then saw your last post. Thanks for the affirmation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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