[App_rpt-users] ACID CD install boot failure

[Joe Bryant]

David,

                The picture on my original post shows the exact point where
the Centos boot stops, and reboots the machine. Not very far into it. The
hard drive is a standard 60 gig IDE.

 

 

From: shawpbx at gmail.com [mailto:shawpbx at gmail.com] On Behalf Of David KE6UPI
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:18 AM
To: jbryant at bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID CD install boot failure

 

How far does the boot go? Does it stop loading initrd.img? Are you using IDE
or SATA drives? I have installed CentOS then used the install files from
ACID and that does work. If you are using SATA that might be the problem.. 

David

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Joe Bryant <jbryant at bellsouth.net> wrote:

No, there are none.

 

From: shawpbx at gmail.com [mailto:shawpbx at gmail.com] On Behalf Of David KE6UPI
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:36 PM
To: jbryant at bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID CD install boot failure

 

Do you have any pci cards installed? 

David

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Joe Bryant <jbryant at bellsouth.net> wrote:

All,

I have a 2002 vintage, VIA EPIA Mini-ITX box (C3 Eden 800Mhz processor). It
has 512 MB RAM, and a 60Gig hard drive. The ACID / CentOS install CD, will
not complete the boot process, it goes into a loop. At the point shown in
this picture:  http://www.qsl.net/k4bry/mini-itx_boot-fail.jpg , the screen
goes dark, and the box reboots into the CD again. The CD is good, it was
used on my first install with no problems.

 

I have manipulated the BIOS settings for several hours, with no change in
the result. It may be caused by a lack of enough RAM, but I Don't know. If
there is documentation on the minimum requirements for an ACID install, I
can't find it.  If I try to find RAM to take it to the 1 Gig maximum, it is
likely to cost more than this old Motherboard is worth.

 

After no progress with this, to see if it was hardware failure, I installed
the Kubuntu-10.04-Alternate-i386 version of Ubuntu, GUI and all, without a
hitch. It runs very slowy, which is to be expected, but it does run. 

 

Does anyone see an obvious problem, or have any idea what I should try next?
I have a second box with the same Motherboard, It would be nice and cheap,
if I could get them both working. 

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Joe Bryant

K4BRY

 

 


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