Having trouble installing on single hard drive to do a dual

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

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!

[Cannonfodder]

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.

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

Thanks Cannon I'll try that

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

Nope didn't work. Disabled it in Bios... and then also did in with the F1 option also. Any other thoughts?

[bvc]

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.

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

:? :? :?

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!

[bvc]

#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:

[Pzatch]

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.

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

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!

[Pzatch]

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.

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

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

[Pzatch]

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.

[Guest CloakedPenguin]

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.

[pmpatrick]

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.

[Counterspy]

BVC, where did you get that list and do you have any more gems like it?

 

Counterspy