[GRLUG] Choice of MB - Trouble Installing

[JD Walsh III]

Perhaps you should try running one of the installers in text mode 
instead of graphical and see what error messages show up. Also, are all 
the motherboards with these errors using the same BIOS?

--jd

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> rh90p at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>> I only have one DVD burner on the A8V but the media verification
>> checks OK when I boot the CD.  The DVD reader on the CUX4X-DLS 
>> also passes the media verification.  I think I also tried CD's on
>> Fedora 8 burned on the CUX4V-DLS.
>>
>> Here's the whole scoop which I reran last night to be sure:  
>>   1) Knoppix 5.2 boots and runs on both machines (caveat) but the
>>     
>        partitioning seems odd on the A8V (Deluxe)
>   
>>   2) Fedora 9 Live burned on CD burner on the CUV4X-DLS starts 
>>     
>        booting and goes a while in graphics mode but then goes black
>        screen a little before the bot completes.
>   
>>   3) Fedora 9 install from DVD hangs someplace past choosing the
>>     
>        keyboard type in graphics mode.  In text mode I get a kernel
>        panic a little ways in.
>   
>>   4) openSuSE 10.3 DVD install gets past all the setup and package
>>     
>        selection using the default package selection but then a package
>        fails to install and it quits.
>
> Does this failure give a CRC error on the RPM package? The last time I
> ran into a SuSE install that bombed in this manner it was on an old
> motherboard with capacitors on the verge of failing. That is the kind of
> thing that could cause different, strange errors in different situations.
>
>        If I deselect that then another
>        package fails to install, and so forth until I've deselected 20-30
>        packages.  It then completes an install but is somewhat unstable.
>        Then when I try and add some of the packages that I want it goes
>        tits up.
>   
>>   5) SuSE 9.3 installs and runs on both (caveat) and I am still using it
>>     
>        on the CUV4X-DLS
>   
>>   6) Windows XP64 runs on the A8V, Windows 2K runs on the CUV4X-DLS.  
>>     
>        Monitor, Graphics Cards,  disks, CD's/DVDs etc all seem fine. If it
>        matters the video on the A8V is an ATI Radeon 7200, the CUV4X-DLS has
>        an older ATI which I think is a Rage 128.
>   
>> (caveat) There seems to be an issue with the RAID capable Promise and VIA 
>>     
>   SATA controllers.  If I plug in more than one SATA HD the SuSE 9.3 install
>   says that its part of a RAID and not supported. The original Linux on the
>   machine was installed and running on RAID 0 but later kernels dropped
> support
>   for RAID and I've been trying to tell the board NOT to enable RAID.
> There are
>   supposed to be RAID menus triggered by special keys at POST but I cant
> get in
>   to either menu.  Currently, the Promise with a matched set of small
> but very
>   fast drives is disabled in the BIOS and there is a single 250G on the
> VIA.
>
>   
>>     
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