Guest Eskibo Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hi there Im trying to install Mandriva 2007 One KDE (free). It boots just fine and enters the menu where the 2 options are available: "F1" for info and "Enter" for continuing. When i press enter (or let it autoload the install), the screen changes where a load bar on the bottom left corner appears. This is where nothing happens at all. Ive waited for ages and nothing happens. Tried to run it on my laptop and it enters the live version fine, and install works fine by clicking the install icon. Does anyone know why it does this? My comp specs are: Intel Core 2 duo 2.4ghz 2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHZ Maxtor MaXLine III 300 GB, runs trough SATA 2 ASUS P5W DH Deluxe Mobo Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2 Extreme 19" LCD monitor Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 Did you check the md5sum before burning the iso-file onto the cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 Did you check the md5sum before burning the iso-file onto the cd? I dont know what that is, im a bit of a noob. How do i chk that, and what does it mean? It worked on my laptop though, but for some reason not on my desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Try 2007.1 The mainboard chipset (Intel i975) is not properly supported by the 2007.0 installation kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) Where do i find a 2007.1 version? Sorry if you find all these questions silly, but im all new to Linux. Thanks in advance :) Edited December 23, 2006 by Eskibo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 2007.1 will be available pretty soon- it was scheduled to be released before new year. The problem in your case is not so much the i975 chipset, but the onboard SATA/PATA Jmicron Controller, which needs kernel 2.6.18 for proper support (or a sufficiently patched 2.6.17 kernel, which isn't the case with Mandriva 2007.0 ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 Ahhh i see. I guess im going to wait for the release then. Thanks again scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) For the record, the only "user-friendly" distributions that support the Jmicron troublemaker at the moment are OpenSuSE 10.2, Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10 (although neither the performance is good, nor the I/O operations error-free) and Zenwalk 4 (although Zenwalk isn't the definition of a user-friendly distro). The others ( Mepis, PCLOS, Mandriva...) use older kernels, and cannot see any harddisk present- they even fail to initialize the installation CD-ROM. You can try when the system boots from the installation medium pressing escape and passing the parameter linux irqpoll ...which will likely allow you to install the system, but it's questionable if the installation will be usable! Edited December 23, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 (edited) Awesome, giving it a go. Wont uninstall windows quite yet then, just to see if its bootable. X-ing my fingers. Hmm, pressing escape does nothing. Its as if the installation freezes, however, i tried to leave it for about 20mins and the screen went black for 5mins and then came back to the installation screen with no activity. Nothing happens after this. And my DVD-drive stops working. Im guessing it probably is the Jmicron causing problems. Edited December 23, 2006 by Eskibo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 You can try "F1" instead, and pick an option which will allow you to pass user-specific boot parameters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted December 23, 2006 Report Share Posted December 23, 2006 While the install screen appears (with install bar in bottom left corner) nothing can be done to exit other than pressin the reset or power button. In the menu i can press F1 however. This takes me to a dos like OS, with the command line /boot. I can type commands here, tried the linux irqpoll string you sent me but that does nothing, and makes the install run automatically and then hangs once more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 27, 2006 Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 With core-duos you have to disable the core in the bios so that it's only running one processor effectively. Then when you've got the system installed, you can install a kernel-linus-2.6.18 kernel, reboot and enable the core again in the bios. Just make sure you select the 2.6.18 kernel after enabling the core again, else it won't boot and you'll get the nice black screen (well, black on mine) and no booting. I did that on mine :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eskibo Posted January 2, 2007 Report Share Posted January 2, 2007 Hey m8 Tried to make it work as you said, but i got stuck trying to figure our how to deactivate one core. Entered the bios and cant find anything even relating to being able to do so. Read the manual, that explains nothing. Do you have any knowledge about how to do so on the Asus P5W DH Deluxe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 No idea on your board, my laptop is a Toshiba, so they tend to have their own BIOS'es, but there was something in there about disabling the core of wording to that effect. I only found it by accident wondering if I could do it. Seems in my BIOS I can do this. I would have expected though that all BIOS'es should have this functionality. I know hyperthreading on Pentium IV chips could be disabled, so the same functionality should exist. Maybe the wording is slightly different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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