2004.3 LiveCD hangs on AutoConfigure

darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

Here are my system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
512 MB RAM
Gigabyte 7n400 pro2 (nForce 2 chipset)
realtek 8139too nic
gigabyte geforce 5700 w/128 MB RAM
IBM 20GB HDD
Seagate Baracuda 40 GB HDD (for windows)
Asus TV/FM Tuner/Capture Card
NEC 3500A DVD+-RW
Plextor 121032A (CDRW)

When I pop either the universal or mininal install cd in the drive, it hangs on the autoconfigure--I let it run 2+ hours and it never moved on.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, if anyone knows of an exact release date for 2005.0, I would like to know (since if its in the next week or so, I may just wait for that)

Thanks.
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Black Imp · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 168

Duck-Billed Platypus · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 2:19 am Post subject:

check that the image file isnt corrupted
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darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

I have a usb mouse, and I will try that in a bit--can't right this second, but will get back to that.

The image file is fine (MD5 checks out), so that's a dead end. I had considered it as a possibility myself, but hadn't checked until now.

Will post results of other test later.
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darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

I checked the USB mouse controlled by OS/BIOS, and there was no such option in the BIOS for this board. Unless you have some other suggestions, I am just going to wait for the 2005.0 version.

Thanks again, though.
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Black Imp · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 168

darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

unfortunately, it makes no difference, as that is how I had it set initially. Now, I did have floppy cable connected, but the drive was unpowered, so I wonder if that may have impacted this, or if the non-functioning usb ports that I had connected were causing problems?

Either way, I have bigger fish to fry. I tried Vidalinux (since it is similar to Linux) and managed to hose the MBR/partition table for winblows XP in the process. This dual boot was fine, except it became single boot with JUST vidalinux.

As a side note, VidaLinux is not that great--I had a terrible time with portage working properly.

They need a lot of help.

But back to my OQ, if you have any other ideas, I would appreciate it.
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Black Imp · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 168

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

Try booting with the nodetect option, this will ignore the automated hardware detection and continue. You will probably have to load the appropriate kernel modules afterwards, but that's something to think about when this indeed resolves the issue and others pop up

darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

Black Imp · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 168

let me suggest you then to unplug your spoiled usb frame before renouncing to use linux autodetecting

Biscuit head · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

Ive got the same mobo as you, and i had the same problem, i went though the process of turning things off in the BIOS and it turned out to be the onboard sound card. Yes i do use a USB keyboard and mouse, but i havn't had my usb socket ruined out.

So now i could boot with it autodetect. Then noticed that the nic still was not working. It turns out IRQ16 was being disabled, which is the onboard nic is asigned to, and i looking in the BIOS to change it, but i couldn't change it.

So i ended up using the knoppix live cd to install gentoo, but i ran into one problem when trying to install lilo (error about /dev file system), so i used the gentoo live cd to install the bootloader, and all it working well now.

So what im saying, is use the knoppix livecd

darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

The really odd thing is that I have installed gentoo previously using this mobo, and I did not run into any problems, even with onboard sound. That's what's got me frustrated, not that I am having trouble.

The autoconfigure should work fine, and other distros aren't having any trouble at all, so I don't understand the problem.

I tried again, just the other day without the hosed usb frame, and it did the same darn thing--just hung on autoconfig. Maybe I'll try it without that, and just load the kernel modules for my nic (which works just fine).

Oh well.
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Black Imp · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Posts: 168

darksarin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 86

I disabled that, and it still fails to function. I am not very happy with this situation.
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We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully, and hope that you are pleased with our unintelligent diligence" --Wherry (1995) pp. 1-2.