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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: February 01, 2008, 08:30:42 pm »

Back with some more news.
I reinstalled the hybrid and now without any changes to cable etc it continues with diskless setup.sh
AND IT WORKS

Only thing a changed is the internal ip address range from 192.168.80 to 192.168.1 because I saw some post mentioning that but cannot find the reason anymore why people did that....don't think this is the cause though?
Probably due to bad install it didn't work...

closed!

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 29, 2008, 08:26:11 pm »

I am using a cross cable that seems to work fine untill the message "announced ourselves to the router" shows up.
Then the hybrid installes some software and the script diskless setup.sh starts to run after 10sec it shows:diskless setup failed.

I am now reinstalling the hybrid to see if that helps. Will be back with more news!

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 28, 2008, 06:48:11 pm »

OK So my set-up should work. ( I did before aswell but never stable). I only have one NIC in my MD (two in the hybrid).
I have one issue that is that I cannot see "Legacy LAN" anymore in the MD boot device priority list since I updated the bios.
I can only see Nvidia Boot age (if I enable Nvidia Boot ROM). I don't remember if I used that setting before or "Legacy LAN".

I there anybody that uses the same motherboard (M2NPV-VM) that can tell me their bios setting for the boot device priority in the MD?   
I amusing the latest 1201 bios for the MD. The chybrid (with the same motherboard) still has 0303....there I still have the option of legacy LAN.
I will update it today to the 1201 version. (edit: already updated and Legacy LAN is gone) Maybe that could be the issue?
 
So my question still is does someone know where to look to get more info on the failure I have. Which log file should I have a look at?
ps. the hybrid is not DHCP master on the WAN side, it just gets an address from my router on Eth0.
On Eth1 where the MD is there the MD gets 192.168.80.2
 

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 28, 2008, 03:51:02 pm »

If I understand corectly? Yes I did delete the MD in the admin pages and retried...10 x.

Does this new version work for anybody with a diskless MD??

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 27, 2008, 12:35:36 pm »

Tried
- other cable
- single core cpu
- switch
- Other nic (swapped interfaces)

Nothing works! They do start from LAN and announce themselves to the router, but after that it fails. even after restarting the router etc.

All configs give the same error " Diskless Setup failed"
Where can I find the cause of this failure?

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 25, 2008, 02:00:13 pm »

Can someone tell me if the DVD installation is really needed?
In my case there is no difference in architecture (meaning no 32bit and 64 bit cpu's) i just have 2 64bit cpu's only a dualcore and a single core type.

Is it neccasary to use DVD installation?

ps. I also tried my laptop (also dualcore) as MD but it comes up with the same error at the same point.
I will try my other pc (single core) this weekend and or try a switch.
Don't think those are the problems though.
Where can i find the right logfile for this error?

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Installation issues / Re: MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 23, 2008, 10:06:30 pm »

I did use the amd64.iso cd's, because both are AMD Athlon 64 cpu's.
Maybe someone has got the same setup that is working?

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Installation issues / MD diskless setup fails in 0710, plus screensaver hangs

« on: January 23, 2008, 10:08:00 am »

Hi any help appreciated...

I am trying to setup a system already since the "pluto days"
I have been waiting for more stable versions and lighting interface that work in Europe etc.
I really feel this is a promissing project and bought myself 2 pc's with the M2NPV-VM motherboard and 1GB memory to be able to test LinuxMCE.

I don't have any other stuff yet, because I want a running system first. Untill now I never got a stable running system and need some help with the diskless MD.

I have installed 0710. First from DVD, but that did not work, crashed 3x at unpacking the data.
From CD it worked fine and now I have a hybrid setup & running.
The hybrid machine has a single core AMD Athlon 64 3800+. It runs OK exept the screensaver hangs after the system has not been touched for like 20 hours.

I have a MD (same motherboard and firmware) with a dual core AMD athlon 64 4200+.
Two pc's are connected by a crosscable. With the previous version it worked OK at least the first time I booted the MD, second time was a problem always.

When I startup the MD now with 0710 it announxes itself at the router and the core installes the files for the MD. It is also present in the admin pages.
Then it continues and shows "Running diskless setup.sh"
After 10 seconds it says "diskless setup failed", in red.
When I restart the router (reboot or quickreload) and try again, the MD after some time comes up with the same message.

Anyone a clue?
Can it be the single core dual core mix?
Can it be the crosscable?


ps. I enabled Nvidia LAN boot ROM and chose "Nvidia Boot Age" to boot from in the Bios. That should be the right setting for this motherboard ? I thought I remebered another option called Legacy LAN but I don't see that anymore.

 

 

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Installation issues / media director hangs after reboot

« on: September 11, 2007, 04:14:00 pm »

I succesfully installed 0704 on a core/hybrid and also use a media director.
I use the same M2N motherboards as the developers and don't have any other items in my system yet.

When I install the core as hybrid it runs OK.
When I boot a mediadirector it also boots (after pressing regenerate all orbiters on my hybrid etc and a reboot of the media director) OK.

The media director only shows the basic UI. I don't get it to change to the OpenGL type which is running fine on the core (same motherboard).
I tried changing the config.ini file as described in the forum (Avwizardoverride=1) but when I reboot the mediadirector i does not boot anymore.
It stops after some time during the bootsequences at "...helper script END".
My mediadirector than flickers every 10 seconds to black and the core keeps on writing/reading to it's HDD.
Even when I don't change the .ini file it still does not reboot anymore.

Does anybody have a clue why it doesn't boot anymore? How should I reboot it? I go to more/advanced/reset mediadirector...

And .....maybe someone can tell me how to modify the permissions to the folders on the core. I use WINSCP but when I change the permissions it tells me it in not allowed or something like that (meaning I cannot put any media on the core).

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Installation issues / Re: cannot login to kubuntu

« on: September 04, 2007, 09:29:01 pm »

I downloaded a new iso from another location (previous was Tiscali the Netherlands).
Now it is working OK, I did not erase anything. Kubuntu has partitioned the entire disk, it is still installing at this point.
Looks OK now...


Thread closed.

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Installation issues / Re: cannot login to kubuntu

« on: September 04, 2007, 07:05:56 pm »

Thanks for your answers sofar.

I don't wipe the disk, pluto/Linux MCE is supposed to do that.
I don't even get to the point where kubuntu is being installed.
I saw some other forums mention there should not be a login screen with Kubuntu.
I will try to download the live iso again and re-install.
I will be back with the results...

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Installation issues / cannot login to kubuntu

« on: September 03, 2007, 09:52:18 pm »

I have had a "running" pluto system on my system. Never worked 100%.
So I was really happy to see some people started LINUX MCE, and I hope to get a better running linux MCE

I tried downloading the quick install DVD, I managed to get it after some time (not easy).
When installing the DVD, it hangs at some point when unpacking TAR files...tried 10x burned new dvd, did the md5 check etc...

gave up, So I downloaded the 2 cd's and kubuntu live 7.04.
When I boot from the Kubuntu cd it finaly shows a login screen. just before showing the login I see some final messages on the "terminal window" saying the user is unknown to underlying authenticiation module. After that is shows an error dialog on the desktop saying:Authenticating Kubuntu A critical error occured. please look at KDM's (i believe it says KDM..cannot read exactely it on my TV) logfile for more info or contact your administrator. If I click OK it comes up with a login screen.
I never created a user, cannot find a default password on the web.
Does someone know how I can proceed? and look at thelog-file?