Has anyone had success installing FC2 on a Pentium-I system? On my non-MMX P-166, the install fails somewhere near the end of the first CD. X crashes and the system reboots with no indication of error.
The system has a Mylex SCSI controller and a SCSI disk and CD-ROM. I'm doing a "Server" install (with a handful of added packages) from scratch. The media have all been tested and shown good (and I've installed two other systems, an Athlon and a P4).
Any clues as to what the problem is or how to work around it would be appreciated.
TIA.
Have you attempted a text based install?
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Has anyone had success installing FC2 on a Pentium-I system? On my non-MMX P-166, the install fails somewhere near the end of the first CD. X crashes and the system reboots with no indication of error.
The system has a Mylex SCSI controller and a SCSI disk and CD-ROM. I'm doing a "Server" install (with a handful of added packages) from scratch. The media have all been tested and shown good (and I've installed two other systems, an Athlon and a P4).
Any clues as to what the problem is or how to work around it would be appreciated.
TIA.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Erik Espinoza wrote:
Have you attempted a text based install?
Not yet. I will do tonight and report back.
Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or not.
Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Has anyone had success installing FC2 on a Pentium-I system? On my non-MMX P-166, the install fails somewhere near the end of the first CD. X crashes and the system reboots with no indication of error.
The system has a Mylex SCSI controller and a SCSI disk and CD-ROM. I'm doing a "Server" install (with a handful of added packages) from scratch. The media have all been tested and shown good (and I've installed two other systems, an Athlon and a P4).
Any clues as to what the problem is or how to work around it would be appreciated.
TIA.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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Perhaps there was another error unrelated to X, but that was the response. With the graphical install it's very easy to switch between the virtual terminals and look at what else the installer is doing. This may give you more hints as to what the problem is.
Erik
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Erik Espinoza wrote:
Have you attempted a text based install?
Not yet. I will do tonight and report back.
Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or not.
Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Has anyone had success installing FC2 on a Pentium-I system? On my non-MMX P-166, the install fails somewhere near the end of the first CD. X crashes and the system reboots with no indication of error.
The system has a Mylex SCSI controller and a SCSI disk and CD-ROM. I'm doing a "Server" install (with a handful of added packages) from scratch. The media have all been tested and shown good (and I've installed two other systems, an Athlon and a P4).
Any clues as to what the problem is or how to work around it would be appreciated.
TIA.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Erik Espinoza wrote:
Perhaps there was another error unrelated to X, but that was the response. With the graphical install it's very easy to switch between the virtual terminals and look at what else the installer is doing. This may give you more hints as to what the problem is.
Well, the text-based install worked like a charm. (Almost--the system lives on /dev/sda, but GRUB is in /dev/hda's boot record. For some reason, grub fails to find the /boot partition on /dev/sda1. But I've fixed that before--just have to remember how.)
Thanks all.
Erik
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:24:23 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Erik Espinoza wrote:
Have you attempted a text based install?
Not yet. I will do tonight and report back.
Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or not.
Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:28:44 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Has anyone had success installing FC2 on a Pentium-I system? On my non-MMX P-166, the install fails somewhere near the end of the first CD. X crashes and the system reboots with no indication of error.
The system has a Mylex SCSI controller and a SCSI disk and CD-ROM. I'm doing a "Server" install (with a handful of added packages) from scratch. The media have all been tested and shown good (and I've installed two other systems, an Athlon and a P4).
Any clues as to what the problem is or how to work around it would be appreciated.
TIA.
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Well, the text-based install worked like a charm. (Almost--the system lives on /dev/sda, but GRUB is in /dev/hda's boot record. For some reason, grub fails to find the /boot partition on /dev/sda1. But I've fixed that before--just have to remember how.)
(1) The BIOS was not properly seeing the /dev/hda drive, so grub was confused about which drive had /boot.
(2) If /boot is not on the same drive as grub, then grub must be installed from the grub shell using the install command, so that the location of the config file can be hard-coded into the stage 2 loader.
It's working now.
On Jul 2, 2004, Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or not.
Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.
Maybe you just need more swap space. I had a box that mysteriously failed to complete graphical installs (text installs were fine) until I needed, for unrelated reasons, to add more swap space to it. At that point, graphical installs worked again.
On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 2, 2004, Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or not.
Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, except that it turns on swap right after the partition step.
Maybe you just need more swap space. I had a box that mysteriously failed to complete graphical installs (text installs were fine) until I needed, for unrelated reasons, to add more swap space to it. At that point, graphical installs worked again.
In retrospect, this is probably correct. Anyway, text install worked fine. Next install, maybe I'll repartition.
Thanks.
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