Finally got the machine running. What a wierd set of circumstances....Turned out there was a conflict from the on-board SATA and IDE controllers with Linux drivers etc. Switched the DVD-RW & DVD/CD-R to one channel as master & slave and marking the SATA as legacy, the conflict went away. The bios apparently took the SATA controller and "simulated" additional ide - but Linux looks at SATA like it's scsi.
Turned out we were getting thousands of IRQ 18 requests - tying up about 47% of the CPU. Fixed it as above and the system is blindingly fast now. ALSO This cured the VMWare performance problems. Thanks everybody for your suggestions and help. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Chrisman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/20/2004 2:06:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RLUG] Install problems On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:50:18AM -0800, Steve wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there something I need to set differently because of the system I > > have? > > > > Here are the specs: > > Pentium 4 3.2G Extreme with HT > > Ram - 2Gb > > Twin 160 HDDs on SATA connections > > Samsung DVD-WR > > Generic DVD-R > > Is this new hardware? Your post seems to suggest that you had a > successful OS install running on it at one time but it isn't clear. > > I had problems with installing a couple of Barton 3200+ boards that were > very similar to what your describing here. Both installers complained > about bad media whether it was Mandrake, RH9 or Fedora but as it turned > out the media it was complaining about was the installers initrd. In one > machine I found a bad DDR module and the other machine I installed one > of the matched pair DDR modules in the wrong slot. > > I might be missing the mark here but it shouldn't take too long to > verify the memory arrangement on your system and try the install again. Yeah.. what he said... definitely yank out everything that isn't absolutely critical to boot/install... extra RAM would be one piece. I'm not sure what was meant by mentioning that knoppix hung while installing... do you mean while knoppix was coming up? Or while you were running knoppix-installer? With three distros failing, it's very likely either brand new hardware, or bad hardware. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
