I've been trying to install 13.1 on a clean computer -- by which I mean, no existing data or OS. This is the basic hardware:
- AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Black Edition Agena 2.6GHz Socket AM2+ 140W Quad-Core Processor
- G.SKILL 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
- MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
- SAPPHIRE 100243L Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
- SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card
- Asus DVDR
- Hauppage WinTV HVR 1600 MC Model 1388
I've successfully installed 13.1 on two or maybe three other machines without problem, but this one fails in some way I don't understand. The install process seems to run okay up to the point where you are supposed to reboot the system and let it finish up the installation routines. It cannot reboot. It gets as far as the green lizard screen and stops dead.
On the console, it seems to be running at least one maybe more traceback routines, but most of it scrolls off the screen. The last interesting line is:
9.214457 Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
If left long enough it sometimes adds something about a USB port.
Another strange thing it does: if I boot into a rescue session from the install disk -- and I haven't been able to figure out how to do anything useful from there -- when I attempt to shut down it goes into this strange looping behavior where it seems to be saying something about a USB port number X shutting down, followed immediately by several lines that seem to indicate that USB X+1 is now loading the Logitech optical mouse that's plugged into the system. This sits for a long time, then _that_ number shuts down and the next one (+1) registers the mouse. Over and over, I've seen the count go as high as a hundred and something.
I would give you the exact messages, but they're a little tedious to copy in longhand.
I've seen some references to problems with this distribution related to the Radeon graphics driver, but I never get far enough in this process to do anything about that.
I would appreciate and suggestions to get this working,
Thanks,
maabaum
- AMD Phenom 9950 X4 Black Edition Agena 2.6GHz Socket AM2+ 140W Quad-Core Processor
- G.SKILL 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
- MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
- SAPPHIRE 100243L Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
- SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card
- Asus DVDR
- Hauppage WinTV HVR 1600 MC Model 1388
I've successfully installed 13.1 on two or maybe three other machines without problem, but this one fails in some way I don't understand. The install process seems to run okay up to the point where you are supposed to reboot the system and let it finish up the installation routines. It cannot reboot. It gets as far as the green lizard screen and stops dead.
On the console, it seems to be running at least one maybe more traceback routines, but most of it scrolls off the screen. The last interesting line is:
9.214457 Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
If left long enough it sometimes adds something about a USB port.
Another strange thing it does: if I boot into a rescue session from the install disk -- and I haven't been able to figure out how to do anything useful from there -- when I attempt to shut down it goes into this strange looping behavior where it seems to be saying something about a USB port number X shutting down, followed immediately by several lines that seem to indicate that USB X+1 is now loading the Logitech optical mouse that's plugged into the system. This sits for a long time, then _that_ number shuts down and the next one (+1) registers the mouse. Over and over, I've seen the count go as high as a hundred and something.
I would give you the exact messages, but they're a little tedious to copy in longhand.
I've seen some references to problems with this distribution related to the Radeon graphics driver, but I never get far enough in this process to do anything about that.
I would appreciate and suggestions to get this working,
Thanks,
maabaum