Acutally Mark, now that the system is running the way it should have in the first place, I am very pleased. My Billyware apps are running faster in VMWare than they did on my somewhat older dedicated Winbox. ANd Linux apps - wow.
My next task is to try to get an understanding of Samba. Arghh, there goes that masochistic tendency again. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark C. Ballew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/20/2004 4:46:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [RLUG] Install problems - success That is a really odd problem to have, but would of course explain why nothing we tried help. I've heard stories about SATA and IDE controllers causing strange problems like IDE taking boot preference over SATA if an IDE disk and SATA disk are installed in the same system. See, I told you vmware didn't suck (that much). :) On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
