Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday February 16 2003 01:00 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > I have the same experience, ie, "loading second stage" hangs, > > > both b2 and b3, but only if I press <F1> and type 'expert'. If I > > > just hit <Enter> and let it do a regular install it all proceeds > > > with no hesitation or problems. I don't remember if I also tried > > > 'expert text'. I didn't think to report it as a bug. I just > > > assumed it was peculiar to my system since no else seemed to be > > > complaining. > > > > What can you see on console #4? Any I/O error? > > This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD and, > <F1>, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is blinkin > on the screen, the system will not respond to <ctl-alt-F4>, or > anything else < -F*> for that matter (gave it 10 mins).
If it doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt F4 it means the kernel is totally frozen :(. What if you switch to console #4 right before the freeze? (at the time it will start to load the ramdisk) Any interesting last kernel messages? On my test machine, I can see no problem booting on the CD#1 with "expert" option.. > I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It was > also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I tried > again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried underclocked to 30 > mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert' "loading second stage". > Regular install option has no problems. What if you choose default bios settings? > FWIW, Soyo k7vta pro, 1.4 Tbird, sdram, kt133a-rev03 chipset. Ram is > old but it's a quality Crucial Micron - Mosel Vitelic 8 & 7.5ns CL2 > mix, runnin at IOv 3.4. Never been a problem or presented any test > errors. The install CDr was in my Plextor 8-4-32t burner, a better > reader than my old BCD CDrom. PSU is a Sparkle 300w, always rock > steady spec+ voltages. IOW's, ram ain't the problem ;> If it's a recent machine -> we're having trouble with acpi, did you try to boot with "expert acpi=off"? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
