Installation Problems

[socialretard]

Hi,

I seem to be having rather wierd installation problems. I hope someone can help me.

When booting off the DVD, I get to the boot menu, and I select the normal install option. It then proceeds to load the kernel, and after a few seconds dumps a bunch of strange messages to the screen. These strange messages are:

1. something along the lines of cannot modify IO_APIC. I browsed around on google and saw somewhere you can pass in the boot option of noapic. I did this, and then the following message popped up (after a lot of stuff i couldn't remember because the screen scrolls too fast):
2. unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffb0b0 printing eip C04244ff *pde=00004067 *pte=1ff80021

Very weird. I also receive a kernel panic when trying to boot of Ubuntu 7.10's live CD.

Here's my setup [snigger all you like]:
Motherboard: MS-7036 (MSI) - model number 915GVM
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 530 (3.00GHz)
RAM: 2GB
HardDrive: 1x SATA 80GB, 1x 120GB IDE (both Seagate)
Video Cards: There is one onboard 915 intel graphics chip which can't be disabled in the BIOS. I then have a NVidia 7300GS Graphics card to drive my two monitors
Keyboard & Mouse: Both standard USB devices
Sound: Onboard Realtek AC97 codec

I have tried both with hyperthreading on and off. I have tried with the SATA drive disabled. I have tried with Sound and Network disabled. I have tried with USB disabled. all to no avail.

Please, someone, help me? I'm sooooooo tired of having Windows on this machine. (It's my work machine). I have Linux on a machine at home and it is sweet.

Thanks in advance

[Simon_6162]

I don't suppose you can remove the Nvidia card untill you have installed can you ?

If not try the "noprobe" option at the boot installer
I think you just type linux noprobe and hit return

Here is a list of installer options http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25826

[socialretard]

thanks for the quick response... let me try that quick. No problems removing the nvidia card either. will give both a shot. thanks again

[socialretard]

Well, this is being written from firefox in fedora core 8. your suggestion to remove the nvidia graphics card worked like a charm...

now, to reboot, reinstall it, and see if the machine will boot. here's hoping

[socialretard]

put nvidia card back in, back to kernel panic. tried the noprobe boot option... any other dieas?

[Simon_6162]

if it doesn't you may need to blacklist the driver for the intel card from loading. Let me know if you need to do this and I'll post some instructions

[socialretard]

how would i go about blacklisting? its worth a shot... thanks once again for your prompt response. it is greatly appreciated

[Simon_6162]

bad timing on that post by me.

Take the nvidia card out out again and boot up and log in as root.
type lsmod on the command line and look for a kernel module for the intel915 probably somthing like i810
now open /etc/modprobe.conf in a text editor like gedit or kwrite
and add the line below where i180 is the name you just identified make usre you leave a blank line at the end of the file.

blacklist i810

then reboot with the nvidia card in.

[socialretard]

hi... unfortunately, that didnt work either. thanks for your help. I am going to see if making my own kernel and disabling the intel graphics module there won't help (it seems to crash before it probes...) but that will need to wait until i have some more time.

thanks again, greatlyappreciated.

[Simon_6162]

is there any bios update available that could help you out or a jumper you can use to disable the on board card ?

Good luck anyway

[socialretard]

i checked the manual, and unfortunately there are no options in the bios or jumpers on the board to disable the bios. there are howerver jumpers to disable the network card. its a cheap crappy board anyway. i'm going to buy another. the few seconds of fedora screeming along was worth it