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@gmail.com [mailto:shawpbx@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David KE6UPI
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:18 AM
To: jbryant@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@bellsouth.net> wrote:

No, there are none.

From: shawpbx@gmail.com [mailto:shawpbx@gmail.com] On Behalf Of David KE6UPI
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:36 PM
To: jbryant@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@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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