thanks for the info,
looking at the Fedora 9 64bit DVD:
the first option is:
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img
I tried
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img noapic nolapic
but that also was frozen up.
the second option is
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text
I tried instead:
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img text noapic nolapic
that is also frozen up at the:
"disc found To begin testing the media ...." screen.
can you suggest any other boot commands to try?
I'd try the acpi=off, but I didn't need any boot options, as far as I remember
to get Fedora 8, or 9 to boot, although as I said, I do see that I have
appended the kernel, probably post-install. Mind you that's a different
machine, different hardware to yours.
Although you have FC3 installed with no problems, I would still look in your
BIOS, and see if there is an option to disable acpi, and if so, disable it,
as, as I mentioned, I couldn't boot anything with acpi enabled on this mobo
of mine.
Nigel.
On 30-Jul-08 14:25:41 Nigel Henry wrote:
>On Wednesday 30 July 2008 11:29, whoosh wrote:
>> first I downloaded the Fedora Core 9 64 DVD iso, took many hours,
>>
>> but on attempting to install, it freezes up at the test media screen.
>>
>>
>> I then downloaded all the FC9 64 CD isos, tried the first one and
>> it freezes up at the test media screen.
>>
>> I tried submitting a report on the University of Kent form, but that
>> failed!
>>
>>
>> I then tried the FC9 64 net install CD and it freezes up on the
>> choose language screen.
>>
>> The PC is an AMD Sempron 64 tower, from probably 2006. I thought
>> maybe there are bugs in the early AMD64 CPUs.
>>
>> so I tried the FC9 32 net install iso, freezes up on the "Choose a
>> language"
>>
>> screen. That suggests it isnt a 64 bit bug.
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried Ubuntu 64, 8.04.1 that freezes up once the desktop appears.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> when I say freeze up I mean no response to keyboard (or mouse for
>> Ubuntu).
>>
>>
>>
>> I installed FC3 some years ago without problem, and I use FC3 and
>> Windows XP
>>
>> all the time without problem.
>
>This may not be of much help, but I recently built a new machine with an
> Asus
>
>M2N-X Plus mobo (sktAM2), and an AMD64 3800+ CPU. Nothing at all would
> boot on it, install discs, or live cd's, (keyboard, mouse, whole machine
> locked up), until I disabled acpi in the BIOS, so that may be worth a
> try.
>
>I still had a bunch of problems installing some distros. Kubuntu Gutsy
> Gibbon
>
>7.10 (live cd, with option to install on desktop once booted) booted, and
> got
>
>as far as startx, but locked up before showing the KDM splash screen.
>
>Fedora 8 installed ok, but I had problems booting post install, and had to
> do
>
>an interactive startup, as it was hanging at starting some services
>(ip6tables, and cpu frequency scaling), which I then said (NO) to during
> the interactive startup. It looks like I may have had problems also, when
> it got booted as far as startx, with locking up prior to displaying GDM
> login screen, as I see that I've appended the kernel line in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst with noapic nolapic
>
>Then I tried installing Kubuntu Breezy, which is perhaps a similar age to
your
>FC3, and that installed ok, using the kernel 2.6.12-9-386. Upgraded Breezy
> to
>
>Dapper, as I had the updates lying about on another disk, which gave me a
> new
>
>kernel 2.6.15-52-386. Rebooted into the new kernel, and it got as far as
>displaying KDM to login, but again everything was locked up. Well I knew
> that
>
>it booted ok with the original kernel, so tried it just to very that
> Dapper would work ok with the older kernel, and no problems. Not sure if
> I tried appending the new kernel with noapic nolapic, but if I did it
> didn't work, as
>
>I ended up booting into runlevel 1, tried startx, and the KDE desktop
> opened with no probs. So I thought I'd boot into runlevel 3, login, and
> try startx as user. Appended the kernel line with a 3 in grub, booted,
> and no runlevel 3, but now the new kernel (2.6.15) has no problems, KDM
> opens, and I login with no probs. Thats a bit weird, I know, but seems to
> indicate perhaps, that
>
>it might be a kernel related problem, all these freeze ups, as no prob
> with 2.6.12, but probs with 2.6.15, and later.
>
>Sorry for this very long post, but persevere please.
>
>Now back to Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. I tried alsorts to try and stop it
>locking up when starting X. noapic, nolapic, acpi=off, noapic nolapic
>(together), ll to no avail. The kernel line to boot the live cd also had a
>bit "forcevesa" or something like that. I thought that should have been
> ok. The pci-E graphics card is ati, but usually vesa works ok if ati
> won't, but I
>
>did notice that the the monitors menu showed a resolution of 1640 x
>something, and my monitor uses 1024 x 768, so maybe the lockups were due
> to the monitor/graphics card being totally out of range, when trying to
> use either the vesa or ati driver with booting the live cd.
>
>I removed the forcevesa bit from the kernel line, and appended it with
>acpi=off, and booted, it got as far as starting x, tried to start it a
> couple
>
>of times, then dropped me back into text mode. Can't remember if I
> directly edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf, to change the max res to 1024 x 768,
> or if I ran dpkg --reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg, but either way, once
> done a startx
got
>me the login screen, and I got the live cd's desktop. Clicked on the icon
> to install to harddrive, and that went ok, but I still have to append the
> kernel
>
>line in /boot/grub/menu.lst with acpi=off, otherwise the machine locks up
>when starting x.
>
>Apologies for the long post again, but there may something here that will
> you
>
>a few pointers.
>
>As I said though, nothing would boot at all, until I disabled acpi in the
>BIOS.
>
>Btw, the processor is 64 bit, but all my installed distros are 32 bit
> (i386).
>
>I also tried the 1st cd for Fedora 9 to see if there were any boot
> problems, but as a few days have passed now, and have just finished
> dl'ing disk 6 (on dialup), I can't remember any specific bootup problems
> for Fedora 9, apart from acpi needing to be disabled in the BIOS.
>
>All the best.
>
>Nigel.
>
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