Hi,
I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard.
Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard?
so far I have tried the following.
+ disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the installation to stop at this point)
+ tested all components in another computer, they all work.
+ remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus.
+ power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU
Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, so it is making it difficult to diagnose.
Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but centos still does not want to install on this motherboard.
Anyone have any ideas?
Nathan
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:08:18PM +1000, Nathan Norton wrote:
Hi,
I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard.
Not that it will help you any, but I"ve got Centos 5.3 on my Gigabyte MA770-UD3 board. Probably different enough that it's not a valid data point.
I was looking at a different Gigabyte board. Not certain but it may have been the one you have, but couldn't find out if Linux--especially an older one like Centos--supported all the new chipsets on the board, so I backed off to one where I could find mention of other people running Linux on it.
My guess is that you'll need a newer distro for that board. Keep in mind that Centos 5 was not leading edge when the upstream provider released it two years ago. It is intended to be stable, not bleeding edge.
Good luck!
Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard?
so far I have tried the following.
disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the installation to stop at this point)
tested all components in another computer, they all work.
remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus.
power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU
Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, so it is making it difficult to diagnose.
Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but centos still does not want to install on this motherboard.
Anyone have any ideas?
Nathan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
test following kernelparameters:
pci=nomsi (this works on my Asus Crosshair Formula II with Nvidia 780a SLI Chipset) noapic acpi=off
Am 31.08.2009 09:08, schrieb Nathan Norton:
Hi,
I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard.
Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard?
so far I have tried the following.
disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the installation to stop at this point)
tested all components in another computer, they all work.
remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus.
power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU
Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, so it is making it difficult to diagnose.
Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but centos still does not want to install on this motherboard.
Anyone have any ideas?
Nathan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi with the kernel parameters ... nousb nousbstorage nomsi nodm nodmraid noapic acpi=off pci=nomsi
worked for me ...
Nathan Norton schrieb:
Hi,
I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard.
Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard?
so far I have tried the following.
disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the installation to stop at this point)
tested all components in another computer, they all work.
remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus.
power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU
Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, so it is making it difficult to diagnose.
Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but centos still does not want to install on this motherboard.
Anyone have any ideas?
Nathan
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