I'm having several problems trying to install ASG 7.402 on hardware which I will detail in a moment. But before I tell you what doesn't work, let me tell you what does.
It seems to work perfectly IF (a) I install using the "classic" option, and (b) I press ESCape during boot and then select either the "previous" or "rescue" options. I'm not sure what these mean, particularly "previous". This is a new install on a (formerly) blank hard drive, so there is no previous version, unless the installer is actually installing two different versions, which seems unlikely.
Anyway, if I install and boot as described above, as far as I can tell, everything works. I can log into the web interface, I can configure the system, and data passes through the ASG in both directions to and from other devices on the LAN. The problem, of course, is that I have to have a monitor and keyboard connected in order to get past the boot. (I need to be able to run it headless.)
Hardware is an ASUS P5KPL-CM motherboard with a Celeron Dual-Core E1400 Processor running at 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, an 80 GB SATA hard drive, and a couple of TrendNet Gigabit Ethernet cards (one has a Realtek RTL-8139 chipset, and the other has a Realtek RTL-8169 chipset). Everything is either listed on the HCL as tested and known to work, or at least there's nothing I can find that says it won't work. When I run the classic install, at the Detected Hardware screen, I do see the CPU, hard drive, DVD-RAM drive, and both network cards recognized.
First problem: I can't get the default installation to run (hitting at the "boot:" prompt). It starts to install. I get "Loading bzimage" followed by "Loading initrd", and after a while it says "Ready. Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting from the kernel." And that's where everything stops. The screen doesn't go blank, but nothing else happens. No disk drive activity and no ethernet card activity.
Installing with the "nosmp" option produces exactly the same results. Installing with the "classic" option works, but I think this hardware should work with the default install, should it not? I'm wondering if perhaps there are some BIOS options I need to change. Anyone know?
Second problem: If I install "classic", and then reboot after the install, I see the following:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Press 'ESC' to enter the menu...
Then the screen blanks, followed by about six lines of something that flashes so quickly that I can't read it or even hit the pause key to freeze it. The screen blanks again, and nothing else happens. Totally black screen (although the green light on the monitor indicates it's still getting a signal), no disk activity, no ethernet activity. As I mentioned above, if I hit ESC at the menu prompt and then select either the "previous" or "rescue" options, it works, but selecting the default option gets me exactly the same results as not using the menu -- everything stops.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's wrong, and what I should try next?
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