Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP / STRANGE THING
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:03 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:45 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, snip I just read in your previous email that your pc goes berzerk when trying to change things on the BIOS, in such case, most probably you'll run into issues afterwards even if you manage to start the installations :( It's now booting, but strange things happen. It say my hard drive is hda and my CD-ROM is hdb. But then, it states that: ide0 is hda and hdb ide1 is hdc and hdd therefore, as there is no hdc and hdd, it just hangs :( Any idea ? snip Anyway, the above messages don't seem to be problematic - the controller ports will be seen even if nothing is attached to them, and may/may not be relevant to the problems are seeing. Have to agree with Jordi Molina - looks like you may have BIOS/hardware issues. *If* you can get into BIOS, disable IDE 2 and see if that doesn't stop the hang (I suspect it is not hung, but just timing out waiting for some device to respond - can take a *long* time). Might try checking cables and re-seating things - chips/boards. Could try clearing CMOS - there's often a jumper you can short on the motherboard to do that. Might try a different CD drive. Also, *if* you have a choice, put the CD on the 2nd IDE port (after re- enabling it if you disabled it) to reduce contention when using both the CD and HD at the same time. Since you have a P III and I have a P II board (and older) in some of my machines that will boot from CD on secondary IDE ports, maybe yours would allow this too? Might take care of some issues. The suggestion to try resetting the BIOS is a good one. Also, maybe time to replace the CMOS battery on a mainboard that old? Might get rid of the flakiness in your BIOS? snip sig stuff HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP / STRANGE THING
Hi, No need to install, download a freedos iso (www.freedos.org), write the standard distro to a floppy and use loadlin. Ok, I've installed FreeDOS and can access CentOS CDs. What about loadlin ? I just read in your previous email that your pc goes berzerk when trying to change things on the BIOS, in such case, most probably you'll run into issues afterwards even if you manage to start the installations :( It's now booting, but strange things happen. It say my hard drive is hda and my CD-ROM is hdb. But then, it states that: ide0 is hda and hdb ide1 is hdc and hdd therefore, as there is no hdc and hdd, it just hangs :( Any idea ? -- :wq! Mário Gamito ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS over FTP / STRANGE THING
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:45 +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, No need to install, download a freedos iso (www.freedos.org), write the standard distro to a floppy and use loadlin. Ok, I've installed FreeDOS and can access CentOS CDs. What about loadlin ? I just read in your previous email that your pc goes berzerk when trying to change things on the BIOS, in such case, most probably you'll run into issues afterwards even if you manage to start the installations :( It's now booting, but strange things happen. It say my hard drive is hda and my CD-ROM is hdb. But then, it states that: ide0 is hda and hdb ide1 is hdc and hdd therefore, as there is no hdc and hdd, it just hangs :( Any idea ? Speaking of strange things - sorry for my earlier off-base message. Somehow the intervening messages in the thread did not show up in my in-box until after I sent the belated and un-helpful suggestions about GRUB and USB. Sometimes our mail servers seem to get behind. Anyway, the above messages don't seem to be problematic - the controller ports will be seen even if nothing is attached to them, and may/may not be relevant to the problems are seeing. Have to agree with Jordi Molina - looks like you may have BIOS/hardware issues. Might try checking cables and re-seating things - chips/boards. Could try clearing CMOS - there's often a jumper you can short on the motherboard to do that. Might try a different CD drive. Good luck, Phil ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
