[GRLUG] Choice of MB - Trouble Installing

[rh90p at comcast.net]

The CUV4X-DLS and the P3V4X both have Award BIOS, the A8V has American Megatrends.  They are all 3 ASUS boards and they all 3 have VIA chipsets.  

I also had a Tyan Tiger 133 which is also a VIA chipset.  I would not install any Linux after Fedora 2.

As I said before, in text mode I get a kernel panic after selecting keyboard.  In graphics mode it hangs, probably in the same spot.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: JD Walsh III <jd.walsh at comcast.net>
> 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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