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Installation Woes

Ok, so.... I'm not sure what's happening here. I have Clarkconnect installed and running, but I wanted to try Astaro.

I burned the install CD and tried installing, but it never gets to the point of booting.

Loading bzimage

Loading initrd

Ready.

And it reboots here, with no error messages or anything. I've tried all three methods of install, , classic and nosmp; they all produce the same results.

I have an Intel, rackmount server chassis with a L440GX+ mainboard with dual PIII 500s with 512mb ECC ram.

Is the hardware listed on the HCL the ONLY supported hardware?

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0 William Warren over 18 years ago
Ok, so.... I'm not sure what's happening here. I have Clarkconnect installed and running, but I wanted to try Astaro.

I burned the install CD and tried installing, but it never gets to the point of booting.

Loading bzimage
Loading initrd
Ready.
And it reboots here, with no error messages or anything. I've tried all three methods of install, , classic and nosmp; they all produce the same results.

I have an Intel, rackmount server chassis with a L440GX+ mainboard with dual PIII 500s with 512mb ECC ram.

Is the hardware listed on the HCL the ONLY supported hardware?

no that's the only hardware Astaro has tested. My setup isn't certified but it runs fine. Try installing in classic mode.
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0 bitonw over 18 years ago in reply to William Warren

when installing try or to see some logs.
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0 ShadowLab over 18 years ago in reply to bitonw

when installing try or to see some logs.

I don't even get to the install screen, only the 'flavor' screen where you pick which install you want to run.
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0 ShadowLab over 18 years ago in reply to bitonw

when installing try or to see some logs.

I don't even get to the install screen, only the 'flavor' screen where you pick which install you want to run.
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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to ShadowLab

the screens should show up regardless, unless your graphics adapter is totally unsupported... try a different video card (nothing fancy is needed).

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0 BrucekConvergent over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

I might add, make sure there is only ONE CDROM Drive, and only ONE Hard drive in the system... Astaro software will not install properly with "too many" drives in the system.

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0 gkemter over 18 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Burning/trying another ASL-Versions (older) can sometimes help.

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0 ShadowLab over 18 years ago in reply to gkemter

Well, looks like there's some sort of other issue also. Out of interest, I tried loading the gentoo CD and it does the same thing. I think CC only works because of the new kernel used on it.

This hardware has had issues in the past with the Adaptec SCSI driver.

Oh well, at least I have one distro that'll run :/
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0 BarryG over 18 years ago in reply to ShadowLab

You might try the CLASSIC install (or NOACPI or NOAPIC if those still exist).

Also, you might make sure that all the BIOS/firmware are current on your motherboard and SCSI controller.

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