thanks for the info, looking at the Fedora 9 64bit DVD: the first option is: vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img I tried vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img noapic nolapic but that also was frozen up. the second option is vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text I tried instead: vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text noapic nolapic that is also frozen up at the: "disc found To begin testing the media ...." screen. can you suggest any other boot commands to try? On 30-Jul-08 14:25:41 Nigel Henry wrote: >On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:29, whoosh wrote: >> first I downloaded the Fedora Core 9 64 DVD iso, took many hours, >> >> but on attempting to install, it freezes up at the test media screen. >> >> >> I then downloaded all the FC9 64 CD isos, tried the first one and >> it freezes up at the test media screen. >> >> I tried submitting a report on the University of Kent form, but that >> failed! >> >> >> I then tried the FC9 64 net install CD and it freezes up on the >> choose language screen. >> >> The PC is an AMD Sempron 64 tower, from probably 2006. I thought >> maybe there are bugs in the early AMD64 CPUs. >> >> so I tried the FC9 32 net install iso, freezes up on the "Choose a >> language" >> >> screen. That suggests it isnt a 64 bit bug. >> >> >> >> I tried Ubuntu 64, 8.04.1 that freezes up once the desktop appears. >> >> >> >> >> >> when I say freeze up I mean no response to keyboard (or mouse for Ubuntu). >> >> >> >> I installed FC3 some years ago without problem, and I use FC3 and Windows >> XP >> >> all the time without problem. >This may not be of much help, but I recently built a new machine with an Asus >M2N-X Plus mobo (sktAM2), and an AMD64 3800+ CPU. Nothing at all would boot >on it, install discs, or live cd's, (keyboard, mouse, whole machine locked >up), until I disabled acpi in the BIOS, so that may be worth a try. >I still had a bunch of problems installing some distros. Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon >7.10 (live cd, with option to install on desktop once booted) booted, and got >as far as startx, but locked up before showing the KDM splash screen. >Fedora 8 installed ok, but I had problems booting post install, and had to do >an interactive startup, as it was hanging at starting some services >(ip6tables, and cpu frequency scaling), which I then said (NO) to during the >interactive startup. It looks like I may have had problems also, when it got >booted as far as startx, with locking up prior to displaying GDM login >screen, as I see that I've appended the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst >with noapic nolapic >Then I tried installing Kubuntu Breezy, which is perhaps a similar age to your >FC3, and that installed ok, using the kernel 2.6.12-9-386. Upgraded Breezy to >Dapper, as I had the updates lying about on another disk, which gave me a new >kernel 2.6.15-52-386. Rebooted into the new kernel, and it got as far as >displaying KDM to login, but again everything was locked up. Well I knew that >it booted ok with the original kernel, so tried it just to very that Dapper >would work ok with the older kernel, and no problems. Not sure if I tried >appending the new kernel with noapic nolapic, but if I did it didn't work, as >I ended up booting into runlevel 1, tried startx, and the KDE desktop opened >with no probs. So I thought I'd boot into runlevel 3, login, and try startx >as user. Appended the kernel line with a 3 in grub, booted, and no runlevel >3, but now the new kernel (2.6.15) has no problems, KDM opens, and I login >with no probs. Thats a bit weird, I know, but seems to indicate perhaps, that >it might be a kernel related problem, all these freeze ups, as no prob with >2.6.12, but probs with 2.6.15, and later. >Sorry for this very long post, but persevere please. >Now back to Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I tried alsorts to try and stop it >locking up when starting X. noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, noapic nolapic >(together), ll to no avail. The kernel line to boot the live cd also had a >bit "forcevesa" or something like that. I thought that should have been ok. >The pci-E graphics card is ati, but usually vesa works ok if ati won't, but I >did notice that the the monitors menu showed a resolution of 1640 x >something, and my monitor uses 1024 x 768, so maybe the lockups were due to >the monitor/graphics card being totally out of range, when trying to use >either the vesa or ati driver with booting the live cd. >I removed the forcevesa bit from the kernel line, and appended it with >acpi=off, and booted, it got as far as starting x, tried to start it a couple >of times, then dropped me back into text mode. Can't remember if I directly >edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, to change the max res to 1024 x 768, or if I ran >dpkg --reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, but either way, once done a startx got >me the login screen, and I got the live cd's desktop. Clicked on the icon to >install to harddrive, and that went ok, but I still have to append the kernel >line in /boot/grub/menu.lst with acpi=off, otherwise the machine locks up >when starting x. >Apologies for the long post again, but there may something here that will you >a few pointers. >As I said though, nothing would boot at all, until I disabled acpi in the >BIOS. >Btw, the processor is 64 bit, but all my installed distros are 32 bit (i386). >I also tried the 1st cd for Fedora 9 to see if there were any boot problems, >but as a few days have passed now, and have just finished dl'ing disk 6 (on >dialup), I can't remember any specific bootup problems for Fedora 9, apart >from acpi needing to be disabled in the BIOS. >All the best. >Nigel. >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
