On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 10:30:21 -0700
Per Bothner <per(a)bothner.com> wrote:
I rather optimistically bought an Asus a7n8x Deluxe
motherboard (with the Nvidia nForce2 chipset), along with
an Athlon XP 2600+, and tried to install Severn2. Multiple
times. Each time it got partway into installing packages and
then a kernel panic or freeze.
I had hoped it would work, since I read (mis-read?) that
the a7n8x runs on RH 9 without patches. But that doesn't
seem to be the case either - each time I try to do a
gcc boostrap (on a different partition than the one I
tried to install Severn2 on), gcc fails in a different way.
My guess is some disk-related problem, such as DMA.
(I have moved a jumper to disable SATA, so the kernel would
not timeout for the non-existent drives.) Any suggestions?
[This is a re-port. The previous posting has spent almost
to 24 hours awaiting "moderator approval", so I decided I
needed to subscribe.]
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I have seen motherboards that get the RH installer to display kernel panics during the
intial boot from CD when trying to install. On at least one system, turning off power
management option in the BIOS allowed the installation to proceed. After installation,
re-enabling the power management worked fine.
I don't know if this is the issue you are dealing with but it is something to try.
Good luck!