Re: Installation problems (Solved)
After trying many different things I decided to run the memtest8+ utility that came on the Ubuntu CD. This reported errors on one of the memory chips. When I removed the offending chip Ubuntu workstation was able to install without a problem. I didn't try the Debian etch CD again since my preference was to try out Ubuntu first. Thanks again for everyone's help. David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation problems
I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. Debian Etch: The machine boots into the installation from the CD. However, when it gets up to detecting the CD ROM it says that it cannot detect any CD. At that point the installation cannot continue. Ubuntu workstation: The CD starts to boot. After a while I get the following error inti_udevd_socket bind failed address already in use followed later by udevd socket illegal seek and Assertion failed: qc-n_elem0 drivers/scsi/libata-core.c, ata_fil_sg, line=2531 The boot process continues and then I get INIT: Id 1 respawning to fast INIT: Id 2 respawning to fast INIT: Id 3 respawning to fast INIT: Id 4 respawning to fast then No more processes in this runlevel and then it goes to sleep for five minutes and repeats the respawning to fast errors Ubuntu server: The installation process seems to be going along fine. I manually configure the network card since I am not running DHCP. When the installation gets up to creating partitions it gets to 76% of creating ext3 file system for / in partition #1 of SCSI (0,0,0) (sda)... and hangs. -- David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +0200, David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. The thing, which I notice is that different distributions have completely different problems. Did you try to install the same distribution twice, at different times, to see if the reported errors get reproduced? If they are different, then I would suspect overheating. Then, try to rule out shorts (such as a fallen screw) and overheating. Then suspect defective motherboard and/or memory chips. For general troubleshooting advice: http://www.troubleshooters.com/ --- Omer -- You haven't made an impact on the world before you caused a Debian release to be named after Snufkin. My own blog is at http://tddpirate.livejournal.com/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
David I had a similar problem with an Intel 945 a few months ago - go into the BIOS and select Legacy IDE Mode for the hard drive. I dont know about Ubuntu - but I am pretty sure if you download the latest version of CentOS 4 you should be fine - I was able to install CentOs 3.4 this way hope it helps Danny David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. Debian Etch: The machine boots into the installation from the CD. However, when it gets up to detecting the CD ROM it says that it cannot detect any CD. At that point the installation cannot continue. Ubuntu workstation: The CD starts to boot. After a while I get the following error inti_udevd_socket bind failed address already in use followed later by udevd socket illegal seek and Assertion failed: qc-n_elem0 drivers/scsi/libata-core.c, ata_fil_sg, line=2531 The boot process continues and then I get INIT: Id 1 respawning to fast INIT: Id 2 respawning to fast INIT: Id 3 respawning to fast INIT: Id 4 respawning to fast then No more processes in this runlevel and then it goes to sleep for five minutes and repeats the respawning to fast errors Ubuntu server: The installation process seems to be going along fine. I manually configure the network card since I am not running DHCP. When the installation gets up to creating partitions it gets to 76% of creating ext3 file system for / in partition #1 of SCSI (0,0,0) (sda)... and hangs. -- Danny Lieberman http://www.software.co.il/blog - Better Software, music and mountain biking http://www.opensolutions.co.il - Practical, vendor-neutral solutions to reduce operational risk Office + 972 3 610-9750 Cell + 972 54 447-1114 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
Yes I tried installing each distribution more than once with the same results. David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omer Zak wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +0200, David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. The thing, which I notice is that different distributions have completely different problems. Did you try to install the same distribution twice, at different times, to see if the reported errors get reproduced? If they are different, then I would suspect overheating. Then, try to rule out shorts (such as a fallen screw) and overheating. Then suspect defective motherboard and/or memory chips. For general troubleshooting advice: http://www.troubleshooters.com/ --- Omer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
El mié, 18-10-2006 a las 09:32 +0200, David Suna escribió: Yes I tried installing each distribution more than once with the same results. Try also with Knoppix 5.0 or higher it is excellent to detect and check hardware configuration at booting. If it successfully boots to the graphical mode, then you can also easily check sound and that all your drives appear and if they are writuable. You also may check that the disks´ cables( IDE, SATA) and jumpers are well configured and connected and how they appear at the BIOS. Try different configurations. It does matter. Your Etch problem sounds like that. David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omer Zak wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +0200, David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. The thing, which I notice is that different distributions have completely different problems. Did you try to install the same distribution twice, at different times, to see if the reported errors get reproduced? If they are different, then I would suspect overheating. Then, try to rule out shorts (such as a fallen screw) and overheating. Then suspect defective motherboard and/or memory chips. For general troubleshooting advice: http://www.troubleshooters.com/ --- Omer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Julian Daich [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
David Suna wrote: I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. Any help would be much appreciated. Is the CD drive a SATA drive, by any chance? It sounds to me as if the SATA support your kernel carries is buggy. All three symptoms you describe are slightly disk or CD related. If Danny's advice works, use it, at least for the mean while. It will make the disks look like IDE disks to Linux, and thus use more stable drivers. Just beware that when/if you want to upgrade the kernel and switch to direct SATA support, you will have to go through a bit of an awkward procedure to generate an initrd that is capable of booting the machine. We can leave that problem be for now, however. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installation problems RH6.2
HI all I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the installation... plz help N Noam Ben Haim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +972-9-9561615 ext 122 Fax: +972-9-9561610 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation problems RH6.2
How about removing the NIC, reinstalling and placing it back again? Isaac Aaron "Noam Ben Haim" noambhTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @cc: onsetinc.comSubject: installation problems RH6.2 Sent by: linux-il-boun ce@ cs.huji.ac.il 15/08/00 10:16 HI all I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the installation... plz help N Noam Ben Haim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +972-9-9561615 ext 122 Fax: +972-9-9561610 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installation problems RH6.2
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Noam Ben Haim wrote:
HI all
I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the
installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation
configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the
installation...
plz help
N
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Hi Noam,
Install RH6.2 without the network card.
Make sure you can reboot the computer.
Add the network card physically to the computer.
Configure the card by adding a line like "alias eth0 3c509" or whatever
the module is for your card to /etc/conf.modules
Regards,
- yba
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RE: installation problems RH6.2
I just succeeded in installing when choosing DHCP. alas we don't have DHCP server, so I need to configure it myself. what's more, I get the following warnings in boot time: WARNING: the PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work! You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line. ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 0 eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at I/O 0xe000 IRQ 0 what should I do next? plz help N -Original Message- From: Isaac Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 August, 2000 9:05 AM To: Noam Ben Haim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: installation problems RH6.2 How about removing the NIC, reinstalling and placing it back again? Isaac Aaron "Noam Ben Haim" noambhTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @cc: onsetinc.comSubject: installation problems RH6.2 Sent by: linux-il-boun ce@ cs.huji.ac.il 15/08/00 10:16 HI all I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the installation... plz help N Noam Ben Haim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +972-9-9561615 ext 122 Fax: +972-9-9561610 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: installation problems RH6.2
Try a different type of network card. My experience with some of the
cheaper Realteks is that they don't work or work but accumulate errors
after 10 hours or so. At least get another card on loan to test with.
Regards,
- yba
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Noam Ben
Haim wrote:
I just succeeded in installing when choosing DHCP. alas we don't have DHCP
server, so I need to configure it myself. what's more, I get the following
warnings in boot time:
WARNING: the PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is
unlikely to work!
You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at I/O 0xe000 IRQ 0
what should I do next?
plz help
N
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To: Noam Ben Haim
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Subject: Re: installation problems RH6.2
How about removing the NIC, reinstalling and placing it back again?
Isaac Aaron
"Noam Ben
Haim" noambhTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
@cc:
onsetinc.comSubject: installation problems
RH6.2
Sent by:
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15/08/00
10:16
HI all
I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the
installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation
configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the
installation...
plz help
N
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RE: installation problems RH6.2
Try an EtherExpress (intel card). it is worth the price difference and works like a charm under Linux. Dani On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Noam Ben Haim wrote: I just succeeded in installing when choosing DHCP. alas we don't have DHCP server, so I need to configure it myself. what's more, I get the following warnings in boot time: WARNING: the PCI BIOS assigned this PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work! You should use the PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line. ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 0 eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at I/O 0xe000 IRQ 0 what should I do next? plz help N -Original Message- From: Isaac Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 15 August, 2000 9:05 AM To: Noam Ben Haim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: installation problems RH6.2 How about removing the NIC, reinstalling and placing it back again? Isaac Aaron "Noam Ben Haim" noambhTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @cc: onsetinc.comSubject: installation problems RH6.2 Sent by: linux-il-boun ce@ cs.huji.ac.il 15/08/00 10:16 HI all I added a PCI Network card, and since then I can't reinstall RH6.2. the installation process is stuck at the point of doing the post installation configuration. and I have to reboot the computer, ruining the installation... plz help N Noam Ben Haim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +972-9-9561615 ext 122 Fax: +972-9-9561610 = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
