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Installation issues / Re: 0710b3 64bit issues

« on: January 24, 2008, 06:12:05 pm »

can you please post the entire message before stop? it seems to be a problem with loading the drivers. personally, I saw this error when trying to setup a MD with nvidia network card.

So it turns out, strangely enough, that 0710 doesn't like my SATA chipset.  None of my SATA drives (including my DVD-Rom drive) are recognized, and it can't find a root filesystem to mount.

Even more perplexing, is that 0704 recognizes and works with all my SATA devices just fine.

Upon more investigation, the problem is with Kubuntu 7.10 vs Kubuntu 7.04, not with linuxmce.  But why would kubuntu and/or the linux kernel drop support for a working sata chipset?

Brian

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Installation issues / Re: 0710b3 64bit issues

« on: January 23, 2008, 09:41:38 pm »

can you please post the entire message before stop? it seems to be a problem with loading the drivers. personally, I saw this error when trying to setup a MD with nvidia network card.

There is no message before the stop -- just the BusyBox copyright/license message and the (initramfs) prompt, on an otherwise blank screen.

Brian

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Installation issues / Re: 0710b3 64bit issues

« on: January 21, 2008, 07:18:31 pm »

I cannot get the dvd to even begin the install -- It boots up, and eventually just dumps me out onto a busybox prompt that says (initramfs) and won't continue any farther.  I had the same problem with the 0710 beta 2 dvd.  What's strange, is the 0704 DVD would do this sometimes, and on other attempts, it would work properly.

I initially suspected the RAM, so I did a full ram test, two passes, but it's fine.

Next thing I'm going to try is to take back my video card to Fry's and get a different one -- I have the nVidia 8500GT, which doesn't seem to work so great with linux for some reason.  Particularly since linuxmce insists on rewriting my xorg.conf file every freaking time I boot up -- if I get it to work once, I can count on the system falling over when it reboots.

Brian