This appears to be the classic VIA boot cycle problem. The earlier VIA
(like EPIA) chipsets were not supported with most distros, and this is
precisely what would happen. You're scrod, unless you get a custom
kernel for the specific VIA chipset you have. The Fedora kernels will
work, CentOS will not.
Sorry about that, chief. I have two EPIA boxes that I'd love to use for
this kind of app.
The MSI Wind PCs work great with Ubuntoid distros, BTW.
73/Kurt
Lee Bengston wrote:
On 4/7/09, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote:
This is mostly OT, but I am trying to get a box going to run xastir so
I'll inflict the question on the group.
Got a maxterm box, little VIA chipset ITX mobo, 512mb, CF over IDE for
a hard drive, 12V input, cheap on ebay, with intentions of making it a
mobile rig.
Installed DSL on a thumb drive, runs no problem. Installed DSL on new
8gb CF card, boots and runs no problem. Would rather do an install
than a live boot (DSL is a live type boot), and about that time the
xubuntu live with install capability pops up here, sounds like just
the ticket, so off I go. Check out the USB CDROM from work, set the
bios to boot from "USB-CDROM", come to a screeching halt.
I can boot a memory check util from the xubuntu cdrom but can't get
anything else to boot. Tried 3 different copies of the Xubuntu disk
(verified burns, checked md5sum after download). Tried a centOS 5.2
network install CDROM (use it at work, no problems, so give it a try)
but still no luck.
In all cases, boot process will start, looks good, but errors out,
locks up, or resets and starts booting again.
Memory check util says RAM is OK.
Any clues or suggestions? (other than stick with my original plan of
"get a mac mini")
Hmm, maybe try a utility like unetbootin to transfer the xubuntu live
iso to a usb stick. Then boot live from the usb stick thus bypassing
the usb CDROM drive. If that works, then you could install it from
there onto whatever media is the target. I've booted the live Xubuntu
package from a usb stick on several computers now.
Lee - K5DAT
Murphy, TX
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