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im running out of ideas here. installing on a dell optiplex gx1 pII 400, 2 hard drives hda has 3 partitions including swap, hdb has 4 including swap. now im not sure if is the jumper settings or not, but after installing arch on hda using only 2 of those partitions, after all the steps with a base install, it will not boot at all. just hangs at the alert cover was previously removed or something... these ar both maxtor drives which i had no problems booting with when mandrake was there, then again, mandrake was there when there was just hda alone. lilo is installed too and it points to the right partition (disc0/part2) and still no boot. bios won't boot it either.
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Your system sounds like it is an i586 system(if I remember correctly a Pentium II is i586), which would explain why Arch Linux does not work. It is made for i686, but they are working making an i586 version.
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i thought pII 400 falls right under i686??
All software is written for a particular computer system architecture. Software written for a particular architecture does not run on another distinct architecture. Think Apples and IBMs. Intel (i386, i586) refers to the system architecture of what is commonly called the Personal Computer or PC. This is the type of computer system architecture used in the majority of personal computers. i386 means 386 or above and i586 means pentium or above. Sparc refers to the system architecture of Sun Computers. PPC refers to the Power PC system architecture, mostly Apple computers. Alpha refers to the system architecture of Digital Equipment Computer systems. ia64 refers to the architecture of Intel-based 64 bit computer systems.
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Ahh, I always was an AMD person and generally disliked Intels, I am pretty cheap and never use prebuilt systems. I just kind of figured that since the machine doesn't work on boot, then it probably is an architecture problem. What do you mean when you talk about the alert cover?
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i sthis alert that comes after the dell logo, it goes something like 'alert, cover was previously removed' and it just stays there i think looking for something to boot cause the prompt goes down slowly..
also, i remember doing a base install on my other system dell dimension pII 450 and it worked and booted fine, but i was having problems getting it on the net which i think i know now how to do. so pII has to be i686.
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could you tellus more or less what the error message is please
(btw if a system were i586 you would not get far at all with even trying to boot off the various media soures (ie root floppy or isos))
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basically is what i said above, it comes up after insatll finishes on reboot. i just installed yoper in that same partition and it booted fine. only arch is doing that.
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A simple equation about cpu arch's :
"i686" = "pentiumpro" = "pentium2"
bhrich902: Make sure you have installed the bootloader {lilo,grub} in mbr of hda (aka /dev/discs/disc0/disc). However if bios doesn't boot it, it sounds to me like a jumper problem, so get that screwdriver, open your box & fix the jumpers . Note that Western Digital drives (mostly older ones) have incorrect jumper instructions printed on the drive's label. Master is the 1st pinset near the IDE interface & slave the 2nd, on these drives (being a BFOH teaches u stuff ).
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go into bios and turn off intrusion detection (ive got an optiplex gx 400 and that was the first thing i did)
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Yeah, like Jagged said, the error is from your bios and the reason is because you have previously removed your case cover.
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That's why I hate those brand-name pc's, I prefer DIY home-made boxes .
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Pentium II's are i586.
'uname -m' should confirm that for you.
EDIT: Sorry guys, I'm an idiot today. P2's are indeed i686. :?
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ok, so intrussion detection should be obvious to see in the bios? if so i should turn it off?
zen, i don't think i ahve any control over where lilo is installed, i just click on install bootloader and thats it, unless im missing something here?. also, i think i did set the jumpers like u said, but when i did the cover was off, so i'll try what jagged said which seems something i haven't tried. i'm at work now but will try it then, thx ppl.
as a side note, i have another box (dell dimension v450 pII 450mhz) with another distro in it and the box will not completely shutdown no matter what i do. i posted it in their forum but no solution yet. i was told something about the acpi daemon and the apm daemon. i have tried it with either one and nothing. except that when i try to turn on the acpi i get
Oct 9 00:21:15 localhost acpid: acpid startup failed
Oct 9 00:45:42 localhost acpid: acpid shutdown failed
Oct 9 00:45:42 localhost acpid: acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory
Oct 9 00:45:42 localhost acpid: acpid startup failed
in the lilo i have acpi=on and nothing. the thing is, at the end it says powerdown but it doesn't actually turns off the hardware. anything might help, thx...
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Acpi isn't enabled in the default kernel... I hate at least one kernel built that has acpi compiled in (with very recent acpi code) if anyone needs it.
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so u think acpi would be the solution for me? if so, are u offering an acpi kernel? if so, how do implement that into the system is for (mandrake 9.1), thx...
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If the system is acpi compliant then it should. I'm never quite sure till I try it.
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sooo....?? how do i know and what do i do??
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Try loading acpi drivers from a kernel that supports it (and check dmesg to see if the acpi drivers loaded properly). Then try shutting down, does it shut off automatically?
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well, this arch installation is UNBELIVABLE, when is not one thing is the other. now that've managed to get past the no boot thing (i was toggling bootable between swap and main partitions during the manually partitioning of hard drives, learned that toggling none as bootable is the solution to booting after install), when i boot after a fresh install i get this message about a 3com something, after that it says dhcp mac addr: 'gives me a mac address' then after that it says dhcp and it stays there for a bit loooking for something, then it says 'PXE-E53: no boot filename received from BINL, DHCP, OR BOOTP' then the next line says PXE-M0F: exiting pxe, then after that says F1 to reboot or F2 setup utilities...
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Sounds like your NIC is trying to boot off the network
you need the partition where /boot is to be bootable (this is a must)
you must make sure grub/lilo is installed to the MBR
those errors you are reporting really have nothing to do with arch, ive got a net-bootable nic as well, and if you try to boot off the network with no server on it, you get similar errors.
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Actually, the bootable flag on partitions is only really read by windows. The linux bootloaders don't care whether a partition is bootable. I usually set up my partitions and make the windows partition the bootable one, but I doubt I even have to do that.
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who knows... you might want to install NTLDR
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but like i said before i have no control over where lilo installs, i just click on install bootloader and that's it. my partitions are /swap then 2 other partitions, one for arch and the other for another distro i might try. so now i have to make them /boot, /swap then the other 2, then write the table?. if so, from the type menu which is the number to set /boot to, cause i see a couple that say boot in there. thx...
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ok so this arch thing is just not ment to be. im positive i ruled out the jumper settings when trying to boot, i made a base install using the automatic partition, did another install using the automatic partitions but splitted the 6gig / it made into 2 3gigs and that didn't work. the dam thing just won't boot. and if it boots the nic gets there first and tries to boot of the network.... unless i ran out of posibble scenarious in this thread im just gonna start looking for another distro to try so i could at least get the test box started. which sux cause arch was the one i wanted to try first because of pacman, the updated repositories and all....
on a side note, that shutdown problem i had, i noticed that if i hit the power button everything turns off instantly, hardware and everything, without having to go through halt or poweroff, is this safe to just quit all apps and hit the power button to turn my system off???
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AL is not the the easiest distro for newbies, however u'll learn lots of things in the process, so I'd suggest to install debian (my beloved distro - no flames here ) in one partition for everyday use & keep AL in another to tweak stuff & learn.
For shutdown, it is possible to hit the power button and have the box do an actual '/sbin/init 0' instead of power off, you need to compile a kernel with acpi support, install my acpi.tar.ba2 pkg (from incoming) & bug me to send you my acpi scripts for that job .
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