0.8 alpha/beta and final Voodoo installation feedback

go4it · 2007-01-02 23:19:03

Hi,
I just wanted to mention that installation can be done even if the partion table
is bad.
creating files sytem / mounting points and mounting partions seems to work even if the partition table is not right !
See my post:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=219179#219179
Thanks,

mOLOk · 2007-01-04 01:37:33

damn, the installations stops with the "Loading stage2 ...." message on my shiny macbook black intel core 2 duo (as side note I put refit and gnu-efi in community)

chancho · 2007-01-04 03:50:09

when i try to install. i got error from grub about wrong number. i guess it means it can not find the cdrom of booting.
my system is all sata but the cdrom is ata.
when i got the grub prompt, it only found hd0 and hd1 (both are my harddisk).
any help ??
my motherboard is asus p5b vm.

debauchery1st · 2007-01-04 20:49:36

installed on my brand new hp dv6119 perfectly.

setup was a bit quirky, but that would be the case with any distro on this laptop.

key is to boot with "noapic nolapic" appended to the end of the kernel line in grub. (seems to fix all boot hangups)

Theq629 · 2007-01-05 00:06:31

I also have the "Error while parsing number" problem on an Asus P5B motherboard with a SATA harddrive and nonSATA cdrom. Specifically (copied to paper and then typed in):

Booting 'Show Installation Notes Again'
cat (cd)/boot/boot.msg
Error 23: Error while parsing number
Press any key to continue...

After that it goes to the grub menu and does about the same thing on any selection from the menu. This was with base-0.8-20061218-i686.iso.

Finding the cdrom in this situation on the P5B seems to be a general problem with current linux, but on the other hand the 0.7.2 base works ok (it won't find the cdrom to get packages off of unless I use the all-generic-ide kernel parameter, but even without it the harddrive is found and it is possible to boot far enough to run the install program).

huijar · 2007-01-06 06:51:19

I installed Voodoo a week or so ago with current-0.8-20061218-i686.iso. The installation itself went fine and without problems, but now I'm having probably the same problem than satanix, except that I can't even move the cursor:

satanix wrote:

Im getting system freezes for now reaso with this install, dunno if its kernel related or what , but my system freezes at least once a day for no reason, never had this problem with kernel 2.6.18 arch 0.7.2 install. It freezes the screen but i can still move the mouse???? anyone haveing the same probs?

I'm not sure, but I think that the problem began after installing beyond kernel. First I thought that the pata subsystem was the cause, but switching to ide didn't help. Actually after the switch I've been experiencing some serious slowness issues during post-freeze bootup. When I last booted, it took several minutes for the system to be ready for use. I've checked /var/log/messages.log for possible hints about the lockups, but haven't found any. I think it's better for me to say my gensplash goodbye for a while and test whether the vanilla kernel is more stable than beyond. Now I'll give vanilla a try, continuing using the ide subsystem, because I had similar errors to following (mentioned in this thread) while using pata:

ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) 
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) 
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs 
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) 
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) 
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs 
ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) 
ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) 
ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs 
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33

That kind of errors drove me to suspect the pata system in the first place. I'll report back, hopefully gotten rid of the freezes :?

EDIT: Okay, I just remembered the actual reason for using beyond - my /home is a reiser4 partition. I'm testing with mm now...

huijar · 2007-01-06 11:20:13

Looking good so far No crashes (yet) with mm-patchset.

Romashka · 2007-01-06 11:48:41

Anyone experience random crashes (5% of boots) with the latest kernel (2.6.18 was OK) on early stage (when starting udev from initial image)?
Kernel dumps registers and stack many times (same output), I don't remember where it reported crash (will write down kernel messages when it happens next time) but it was something related to udevd.

RR_Fang · 2007-01-06 13:39:46

Hey,

After failing to install Archlinux 0.7.2, i did not gave up, and downloaded the 0.8 FTP ISO... Installed flawlessly on my computer (Pentium 4 Prescott/Hyperthreading 2.26Ghz, ASUS P4V8X-X motherboard, 512MB RAM, IDE HD), and got no problems at all until now It is only strange to see my IDE HD as sdx, but no problems there

I will keep an eye for strange issues, if any, during my day-to-day use

decoherence · 2007-01-07 03:44:40

did pacman -Syu from .7.2 to .8. had to manually adjust menu.lst (change hda to sda) and fstab (ditto.) everything works fine but the audio, which doesn't work period. that's actually why i joined to the forum before i got distracted by all these pretty threads...

on with my search for a solution!

Back2Cali · 2007-01-07 08:36:35

Hi!

I may have found a little bug on the installation cd for arch64.

Yesterday I wanted to install Arch64 on my new Turion64 notebook and used the 0.8 install cd to do so. To be precise I used the ftp-install version of the cds.
After a couple of minutes I noticed that suddenly the keyboard on my Laptop won't react any longer. This happened all three times I used the 0.8 install cd. And it always happened after installing the base system packages and before installing grub. 2 times when configuring the system and one time during kernel install.
So I took the 0.7.2 install cd and everything worked. Unfortunately I have some trouble now with the system because it randomly started to crash and after rebooting it also randomly destroys some lib files. Strangely enough after rebooting the system it seems to work from time to time and ldconfig doesn't drop any error. So I don't know if my laptop causes the problem or not. Since it worked with the 0.7.2 cd I thought it may also be a bug on the 0.8 version.
By the way, the laptop I used to test on is an HP dv6153eu.

If anyone needs more information about the laptop feel free to ask for it!

Thanks

edge · 2007-01-08 02:14:43

I successfully installed 0.8 in a MS Virtual PC session. Worked first time out. Pacman -Syu worked fine as well.

After having so many probs with upgrading 0.7.2, this clean 0.8 install worked like a champ. Thanks!

mutlu_inek · 2007-01-08 07:07:43

I just downloaded the 0.8-current CD (I only used its base system packages, though) and installed a full-fledged KDE-based desktop system on my Thinkpad X60. No problems at all! The developers have done wonderful work!

tt3346 · 2007-01-08 08:24:15

I've been using linux since last month and I've tried a lot of different distros (ubuntu, kbuntu, xubuntu, fedora core, debian etch, centos, gentoo, sabayon...). It takes me a lot of time to set them up in my Thinkpad T43 to work the way I want, mainly because beside finding the good setting, I also have to find out how the distros were originally set up, and try to fix the wrong setting. Hence, I think I should do all the setting from scratch, and yes, Arch Linux 0.8 works like charm. I can make it work exactly the way I want, and it runs really fast. Great work, our Arch developers. I'm going to install Arch on my old laptop (Celeron 400Mhz with 64M RAM). Hope I can do something useful with this old machine.

arvster · 2007-01-08 10:36:42

Hi, everyone!
I am new to Arch Linux. I just installed Arch 0.8 couple of days ago. Everything went flawlessly on my machine (P4 1,5 Ghz, 256RAM, Nvidia Fx5600). I installed the base install, then went on to get KDE+Beryl and all the bells and whistles that come with them. Now I have nice, fast distribution with everything the way I want it to be. Nice work, developers! This is perhaps the fastest distro I have used (maybe Gentoo was as fast, but I didn't use it for long) and after Ubuntu which was really slow on this quite old machine Arch feels lightning fast. Thank you for your work

fxsti01 · 2007-01-08 17:32:44

Fresh install with 0.8, flawless install, running great on old laptop.
IBM thinkpad T21, 256 mb ram, 700 mhz, PIII.

WiLLiE · 2007-01-09 03:43:07

Just installed 0.8 (base, 20061218) on my laptop.
HP Pavilion dv4000, i915, 1gb ram, pentium-m 1.8ghz.

The only problem I had was with cfdisk, refusing to manage my disk, exiting with an error. (previously had macosx86 on it)
After deleting all partitions in fdisk, cfdisk behaved.

Haven't tried the wireless yet though.

Just awesome, great work.

WiLLiE · 2007-01-09 03:47:30

Romashka wrote:

Anyone experience random crashes (5% of boots) with the latest kernel (2.6.18 was OK) on early stage (when starting udev from initial image)?
Kernel dumps registers and stack many times (same output), I don't remember where it reported crash (will write down kernel messages when it happens next time) but it was something related to udevd.

That happens here during boot from time to time, totally random. (on my main computer)
After manually resetting, it boots like nothing happened.

crouse · 2007-01-09 05:53:14

Installed base install no issues, worked perfectly. Lots of nice little additions to the installer

ISO: base-0.8-20061218-i686.iso
Machine: IBM Netvista 6578-RBU
Processor: Intel 900 MHz Pentium III (Coppermine)
Ram: 256 MB
HD: 160 gb

After doing just the base install, using the first option, I ran "pacman -Syu" and it updated "pacman" . Running it again required 26.2 MB of package updates on the base install.

Updated /etc/pacman.d/current and extra to reflect my mirror and am currently installing KDE and friends now The iso worked fine for me.

Misfit138 · 2007-01-09 14:00:07

WiLLiE wrote:

Romashka wrote:
Anyone experience random crashes (5% of boots) with the latest kernel (2.6.18 was OK) on early stage (when starting udev from initial image)?
Kernel dumps registers and stack many times (same output), I don't remember where it reported crash (will write down kernel messages when it happens next time) but it was something related to udevd.
That happens here during boot from time to time, totally random. (on my main computer)
After manually resetting, it boots like nothing happened.

Same problem here, very random, output is EXTREMELY FAST...hard reboot works fine.

Romashka · 2007-01-09 14:31:18

Misfit138 wrote:

WiLLiE wrote:
Romashka wrote:
Anyone experience random crashes (5% of boots) with the latest kernel (2.6.18 was OK) on early stage (when starting udev from initial image)?
Kernel dumps registers and stack many times (same output), I don't remember where it reported crash (will write down kernel messages when it happens next time) but it was something related to udevd.
That happens here during boot from time to time, totally random. (on my main computer)
After manually resetting, it boots like nothing happened.
Same problem here, very random, output is EXTREMELY FAST...hard reboot works fine.

OK, let discuss it in a separate topic.

Klette · 2007-01-09 15:41:07

Any reason in particular for ditching isolinux for grub? Doesnt work on my macbook (prolly not compiled with efi support)

Romashka · 2007-01-09 15:50:35

Klette wrote:

Any reason in particular for ditching isolinux for grub? Doesnt work on my macbook (prolly not compiled with efi support)

There was a bug report about this. This should be fixed in 0.8 final.

funkyou · 2007-01-11 11:52:38

Another successful install from base-0.8-20061218-i686.iso

Acer Aspire 1642ZWLMI
Intel Pentium M 735A @ 1.7 Ghz
1 GB DDR2 Dual Channel
100GB IDE

Somehow the hdd got fsck'ed after first boot saying something about a timestamp in the future and that /dev/sdaX was not checked for about 43000 days. After that, the system rebooted automatically and doing the same on the next boot, but the third boot was clean then... Beside this, the installation worked flawless...

I just love the overall install experience with the new cd, marvellous work !!

Klette · 2007-01-11 14:44:19

As for iso that works on intel macs, heres one ftp://mirror.djzradio.net/archlinux/iso … ewgrub.iso

Just replaced the grub with the new patched one from abs, works great

Arch Linux

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