Guest korskarn Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 !HELP! I am unable to install mandrake on my new computer. I tried 9.2 and it freezes just after printing "in second stage install" and before printing somethign about checking serial ports. I tried my older 8.2 cds and it freezes as well. Both are installing fine on my older computer. I beleive it to be some incompatibility or conflict with my hardware or my BIOS configuration, but I have no idea what it is. THis is what I have: Processor: P4 2.6 FSB800 (tried with hyperthreading enabled and disabled in the bios) RAM: 2x256 Mb PC4000 (DDR500) Kingston HyperX, using dual interface Motherboard: MSI 865-P Neo2 (intel i865 chipset) Hard Drive: Maxtor DiamondMax9 SATA 120Gb CD/DVD: LG 48/24/48/16 Video Card: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb Sound card: integrated on the motherboard Network card: integrated on the motherboard I am using a PS2 keyboard and a USB mouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 I think it is going to be the SATA drive that is the problem. I could be wrong, but I don't think there is a solution yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest korskarn Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 I found the problem. It was not the SATA drive, it was a setting in the BIOS. I went to the "Intergrated peripherals" screen and disabled them all, and install worked. Then I tried enabling them one by one till I found the culprit. It was "USB Device Legacy Support" that was causing that. There was somethign with the SATA drive too causing random crashes during install and linux boot after finishing the installation, but that was fixed through another BIOS setting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecs Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 I found the problem. It was not the SATA drive, it was a setting in the BIOS. I went to the "Intergrated peripherals" screen and disabled them all, and install worked. Then I tried enabling them one by one till I found the culprit. It was "USB Device Legacy Support" that was causing that. There was somethign with the SATA drive too causing random crashes during install and linux boot after finishing the installation, but that was fixed through another BIOS setting. Can you let us know what you set "USB Device Legacy Support" to? To avoid the same happening to someone else? DAVE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest korskarn Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 It didnt work when I had it set to "All devices" Now I set it to "disabled" and it works I also had to change the SATA setting from "native" to "legacy" in order to avoid random crashes during installation and boot after installing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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