I bought a few parts and built a little PC:
cpu: AMD A64 X2 5600 2.8GHz AM2
mb: ASUS M2A-VM HDMI (with on-board video)
ram: 4GB
hdd: Seagate 750GB Sata II ST3750640AS
dvd: Pioneer 18X DVD-RW SATA DVR-212D
I downloaded F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso to my win notebook, burned it to dvd+r
and popped it in my new machine. The pretty blue install screen pops up
with 4 options:
- Install or upgrade an existing system
- Install or upgrade an existing system (text mode)
- Rescue an installed system
- Boot from local drive
The last option immediately reboots because my local drive is completely
blank (brand-new). Each of the first 3 options results in the following
problem:
...<snip>...
Greetings.
anaconda installer init version 11.2.0.66 starting
mounting /proc filesystem... done
creating /dev filesystem... done
mounting /dev/pts (unix98 pty) filesystem... done
mounting /sys filesystem... done
trying to remount root filesystem read write... done
mounting /tmp as ramfs... done
running install...
running /sbin/loader
At this point the machine hangs. Well, I can poke at the keyboard and
the characters I type are displayed on the screen, but there is no other
response, and I wouldn't know what to type anyway. I let the machine run
overnight in one attempt, and it looked just the same in the morning.
There is no dvd or hdd activity during the hang.
I have similar luck trying to install with a dvd+rw burned from
Fedora-7-Live-x86_64.iso. The choices were:
- Run from image
- Run from RAM - requires 1 GB+
- Verify and run from image
Each of these choices gave these results:
Loading vmlinuz
Loading
initrd.img...................................................................................
Ready.
.
Decompressing Linux...done.
Booting the kernel.
ata1:softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
ata2:softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
hub 2-2:1.0: config failed, can't get hub status (err -62)
Kernel alive
It takes several minutes for each of the 'ata*' and 'hub*' lines to show
up, then it hangs.
I also tried an fc6 install (both graphical and text mode) with a CD
burned from:
FC-6-i386-disc1.iso
The only noticeable difference in the above text was the version of
anaconda (11.1.1.3 instead of 11.2.0.66). Sure enough, it gave the same
error, hanging after:
running /sbin/loader
So I tried fc5 from CD (tried both graphical and text mode) and both
times it gave the following error (and then hung):
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
BUG soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
Pid: 1, comm: swapper
EIP: 0060:[<c0112a74>] CPU: 0
EIP is at hpet_readl+0x8/0x9
EFLAGS: 00000286 Not tainted (2.6.15-1.2054_fc5 #1)
EAX: ffffffff EBX: ffffffff ECX: 014f20d3 EDX: 0000011c
ESI: 0000011c EDI: 00000000 EBP: 00000000 DS: 007b ES: 007b
CR: 8005003b CRS: fff87000 CR3: 003be000 CR4: 000006d0
[<c010bea0>] delay_hpet+0x24/0x2d [<c01c2bf9>] __delay+0x9/0xa
[<c01fec5c>] isapnp_write_byte+0x16/0x21 [<c03a847b>]
isapnp_isolate_rdp_select+0x6/0x14e
[<c03a879a>] isapnp_init+0x129/0xcba [<c01dde4e>]
acpi_evaluate_integer+0x7f/0xad
[<c01f9e8d>] acpi_thermal_add+0x288/0x2c3 [<c01fa83e>]
acpi_match_ids+0x18/0x51
[<c01fa959>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0xc6/0xcd [<c01002e9>]
init+0x80/0x1b4
[<c0100269>] init+0x0/0x1b4 [<c0101005>]
kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
At least this broke up the monotony of the previous errors, so hey, I'm
just tickled pink. Right up until I realize that I have a $1200
collection of PC parts that I can't really use.
I'd sure appreciate some help on this.
Thanks,
Dave
