Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 I'm having trouble installing on a single hard drive to do a dual boot on my Laptop. THe following is the issue and my hardware information: ACK! I partitioned and then tried loading again! It didn't work. Crud. Not Kewl, not kewl at all. Must be something else wrong. It recognizes all my hardware in the initial start up of the install process, then when it goes to the INSTALL and I choose Expert (or the other option for newbies) it just hangs trying to find my hard drive. Some info on my system: Hard Drive: Fugitsu MHR 2030AT Display: SIS 740 DVD: QSI DVD-Rom SDR-081 CDRW: SONY CD-RW CRX175A (USB CONNECTED) INFARED: WINDBOUND FAST INFARED CONTROLLER MODEM: CONEXANT MONITOR: STANDARD LCD LAPTOP MONITOR 14.1 TFT ETHERNET: SIS 900 BASE PCI ETHERNET ADAPTER PROCESSOR: AMD ATHALON XP 2000+ SOUND: SIS 7012 MAKE: HUGEBEE TECHNOLOGIES MODEL: I-BUDDY XP. Is there anything else that you might need to know? I also tried loading the ThizLinuz on here but it said something about unable to allocate partition? (Thiz Linux is bad). Oh and one more thing, when I partitioned my hard drive, I formatted the new partition as a Linux partition. Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Sometimes the install has a problem with a hard drive due to dma. You can disable dma in the bios or do this prior to installing Hit F1 and type linux ide=nodma You can always turn it back on later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Thanks Cannon I'll try that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Nope didn't work. Disabled it in Bios... and then also did in with the F1 option also. Any other thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 There's a host of others, like pci=noacpi noacpi noapic /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-16mdk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt July 2000 Kernel Parameters v2.4.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented by the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known. The text in square brackets at the beginning of the description state the restrictions on the kernel for the said kernel parameter to be valid. The restrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: ACPI ACPI support is enabled. APIC APIC support is enabled. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. CD Appropriate CD support is enabled. DEVFS devfs support is enabled. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. FB The frame buffer device is enabled. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. LP Printer support is enabled. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. M68k M68k architecture is enabled. MCA MCA bus support is enabled. MDA MDA console support is enabled. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. PCI PCI bus support is enabled. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. RAM RAM disk support is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. SERIAL Serial support is enabled. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. SOUND Appropriate sound system support is enabled. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. VGA The VGA console has been enabled. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled. In addition, the following text indicates that the option: BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. BOOT Is a boot loader parameter. Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the boot loader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly. Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and that a trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter will be entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates that it will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programs running once the system is up. 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers. acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface acpismp=force [iA-32] Early setup parse and use ACPI SMP table. ad1816= [HW,SOUND] ad1848= [HW,SOUND] adb_buttons= [HW,MOUSE] adlib= [HW,SOUND] advansys= [HW,SCSI] aedsp16= [HW,SOUND] aha152x= [HW,SCSI] aha1542= [HW,SCSI] aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] AM53C974= [HW,SCSI] amijoy= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management. applicom= [HW] arcrimi= [HW,NET] ataflop= [HW,M68k] atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse. atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI. awe= [HW,SOUND] aztcd= [HW,CD] Aztec CD driver. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem in Full Duplex Mode. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem in Half Duplex Mode. bmouse= [HW,MOUSE,PS2] Bus mouse. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards), most bttv.radio= important insmod options are available as kernel args too. bttv.pll= see Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] cdu31a= [HW,CD] chandev= [HW,NET] cm206= [HW,CD] com20020= [HW,NET] com90io= [HW,NET] com90xx= [HW,NET] condev= [HW] console= [KNL] output console + comm spec (speed, control, parity). cpia_pp= [HW,PPT] cs4232= [HW,SOUND] cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] ctc= [HW,NET] cyclades= [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter. dasd= [HW,NET] db9= [HW,JOY] db9_2= [HW,JOY] db9_3= [HW,JOY] debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). decnet= [HW,NET] devfs= [DEVFS] digi= [HW,SERIAL] io parameters + enable/disable command. digiepca= [HW,SERIAL] dmascc= [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA support available. dmasound= [HW,SOUND] (sound subsystem buffers). dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] eata= [HW,SCSI] eda= [HW,PS2] edb= [HW,PS2] eicon= [HW,ISDN] es1370= [HW,SOUND] es1371= [HW,SOUND] ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters (irq, base_io_addr, mem_start, mem_end, name. (mem_start is often overloaded to mean something different and driver-specific). fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] fdomain= [HW,SCSI] floppy= [HW] ftape= [HW] Floppy Tape subsystem debugging options. gamma= [HW,DRM] gc= [HW,JOY] gc_2= [HW,JOY] gc_3= [HW,JOY] gdth= [HW,SCSI] gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. gscd= [HW,CD] gus= [HW,SOUND] gvp11= [HW,SCSI] hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry (Cyl/heads/sectors) or tune parameters. hfmodem= [HW,AX25] hisax= [HW,ISDN] i810= [HW,DRM] ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter. icn= [HW,ISDN] ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config (iomem/irq), tuning or debugging (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or chipset specific parameters. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : VLB/PCI bus speed. idle= [HW] in2000= [HW,SCSI] init= [KNL] initrd= [bOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk. ip= [PNP] isapnp= [iSAPNP] Specify RDP, reset, pci_scan and verbosity. isapnp_reserve_irq= [iSAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration. isapnp_reserve_dma= [iSAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration. isapnp_reserve_io= [iSAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). isapnp_reserve_mem= [iSAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). isp16= [HW,CD] iucv= [HW,NET] js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick kbd-reset [VT] keep_initrd [HW, ARM] load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy. logi_busmouse= [HW, MOUSE] lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be specified in addition to the ports) causes attached printers to be reset. Using lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports to associate lp devices with, starting with lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip that lp device, or a parport name such as 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a port specification list means that device IDs from each port should be examined, to see if an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if so, the driver will manage that printer. ltpc= [HW] mac5380= [HW,SCSI] mac53c9x= [HW,SCSI] mad16= [HW,SOUND] maui= [HW,SOUND] max_loop=[0-255] [LOOP] Set the maximum number of loopback devices that can be mounted. maxcpus= [sMP] States the maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel should make use of. max_scsi_luns= [sCSI] mca-pentium [bUGS=ix86] mcd= [HW,CD] mcdx= [HW,CD] md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level. mdisk= [HW] mdacon= [MDA] megaraid= [HW,SCSI] mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of memory; to be used when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory or for test. memfrac= [KNL] mga= [HW,DRM] mpu401= [HW,SOUND] msmouse= [HW,MOUSE] Microsoft Mouse. ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] netdev= [NET] Ethernet cards parameters (irq, base_io_addr, mem_start, mem_end, name. (mem_start is often overloaded to mean something different and driver-specific). (cf: ether=) nfsaddrs= [NFS] nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=ix86] debugging features for SMP kernels. no387 [bUGS=ix86] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. noalign [KNL,ARM] noapic [sMP,APIC] Tells the kernel not to make use of any APIC that may be present on the system. noasync [HW, M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for all devices. nocache [ARM] nodisconnect [HW,SCSI, M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. nohlt [bUGS=ARM] no-hlt [bUGS=ix86] noht [sMP,IA-32] Disables P4 Xeon HyperThreading. noisapnp [iSAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured initial RAM disk. nointroute [iA-64] no-scroll [VGA] nosmp [sMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. nosync [HW, M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. notsc [bUGS=ix86] Disable Time Stamp Counter nowb [ARM] opl3= [HW,SOUND] opl3sa= [HW,SOUND] opl3sa2= [HW,SOUND] optcd= [HW,CD] panic= [KNL] kernel behaviour on panic. parport=0 [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. parport=auto Use 'auto' to force the driver to use parport=0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] any IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of possible conflicts). You can specify the base address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). Parallel ports are assigned in the order they are specified on the command line, starting with parport0. pas2= [HW,SOUND] pas16= [HW,SCSI] pcbit= [HW,ISDN] pcd. [PARIDE] pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: off [iA-32] don't probe for the PCI bus bios [iA-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access the hardware directly. Use this if your machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge. nobios [iA-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct hardware access methods are allowed. Use this if you experience crashes upon bootup and you suspect they are caused by the BIOS. conf1 [iA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 1. conf2 [iA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 2. nosort [iA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with older kernels. biosirq [iA-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used, but on other computers it's the only way to get the interrupt routing table. Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard. rom [iA-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. Use with caution as certain devices share address decoders between ROMs and other resources. irqmask=0xMMMM [iA-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards this way. lastbus=N [iA-32] Scan all buses till bus #N. Can be useful if the kernel is unable to find your secondary buses and you want to tell it explicitly which ones they are. assign-busses [iA-32] Always assign all PCI bus numbers ourselves, overriding whatever the firmware may have done. pd. [PARIDE] pf. [PARIDE] pg. [PARIDE] pirq= [sMP,APIC] mp-table. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link. profile= [KNL] enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile (param:log level). prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk before loading. pss= [HW,SOUND] pt. [PARIDE] quiet= [KNL] Disable log messages. r128= [HW,DRM] raid= [HW,RAID] ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated]. ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] ramdisk_size= [RAM] New name for the ramdisk parameter. ramdisk_start= [RAM] Starting block of RAM disk image (so you can place it after the kernel image on a boot floppy). reboot= [bUGS=ix86] reserve= [KNL,BUGS] force the kernel to ignore some iomem area. riscom8= [HW,SERIAL] ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot. root= [KNL] root filesystem. rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot. S [KNL] run init in single mode. sb= [HW,SOUND] sbpcd= [HW,CD] Soundblaster CD adapter. scsi_logging= [sCSI] scsihosts= [sCSI] sg_def_reserved_size= [sCSI] sgalaxy= [HW,SOUND] sim710= [sCSI,HW] sjcd= [HW,CD] smart2= [HW] sonicvibes= [HW,SOUND] sonycd535= [HW,CD] sound= [sOUND] soundmodem= [HW,AX25,SOUND] Use sound card as packet radio modem. specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter. sscape= [HW,SOUND] st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.). st0x= [HW,SCSI] stram_swap= [HW] swiotlb= [iA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs. switches= [HW, M68K] sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] sym53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] t128= [HW,SCSI] tdfx= [HW,DRM] tgfx= [HW,JOY] tgfx_2= [HW,JOY] tgfx_3= [HW,JOY] tmc8xx= [HW,SCSI] tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] tp720= [HW,PS2] trix= [HW,SOUND] u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] uart401= [HW,SOUND] uart6850= [HW,SOUND] usbfix [bUGS=IA-64] video= [FB] frame buffer configuration. vga= [bOOT] on ix386, select a particular video mode (use vga=ask for menu). This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is passed to the kernel using a special protocol. See linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt for information. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] vmpoff= [KNL,S390] waveartist= [HW,SOUND] wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] wd7000= [HW,SCSI] wdt= [HW] xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks. xd_geo= [HW,XT] Sorry this is so long...but I thought many might benefit from it and hopefully you as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 :? :? :? I wish there was a smiley with it's eyes crossed! Holy smokes! Thanks for posting this, but I think I'll just keep windows on this laptop and try again when 9.1 Final is out. :-) It might be the safest bet. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 #3 AMDAthalonXP2000+ LapTop,30GBHD,1 GIG RAM, DVD,WindowsXPPro.Is this the laptop? If so, the "1 GIG RAM" is probably the prob. I don't know exactly how to tell the kernel/install this except for the mem= option, but you need the kernel-enterprise (I'm sure you know this) and I'm guessing that the install isn't seeing it...or something?. I doubt that 9.1 will be diff. Just some thoughts :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Try turning off all DMA, plug and prey and anything else you can think of in the bios. Try leaving the new linux partition totaly unformated, linux installers will find it. How large is the linux partition? 5 gig is a nice size to start with. Sometimes a too small pertition causes trouble with the installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 Okay changed RAM to .5 Gig as for the partition size it is 15GB. One thing about the amount of RAM I don't have issues with my desktop and it has 2.0 GIG of RAM and I'm using the same install CD's. I turned off the DMA in Bios but still have the problem. What next? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 IF??? It has a floppy port you could try that. The installer could be having troouble with your dvd drive. If that doesn't work you could always try a harddrive install or a network install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 I don't have a floppy. Only way to boot from the HD is if I have a floppy. I could do a network boot, but I"m afraid that I need to keep my sanity. Anyone else have thoughts? Linux install freezes with an orange dot by the Hardware detection step. ********************************************************** ::bangs head into desk:: I have to have this done before I start my doctoral classes. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 In the bios can you boot to the usb port and use the cd-rw or are you trying just the dvd? In the bios can you turn off the sound card, ethernet card, modem and infra red controler? reducing the amout of stuff for the installer to find normaly helps. You can always turn them back on, one at a time, later and install them that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 I was thinking the same thing, so I tried that also last night but it didn't work. I turned off everything (even the touchpad mouse by mistake :-X) but nothing seems to work. I tried to install from the hard drive. I created a disk CD-ROM for the rawritten(sp) but that didn't work either. Oy Vey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Pci detection can cause weird install hangs with certain mb/chipsets. Scanning through bvc's litany of boot options I'd try : pci=bios or pci=nobios However, at this point I'm just guessing. Also, try googling for your motherboard/chipset and see if their are any linux issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 BVC, where did you get that list and do you have any more gems like it? Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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