clean install hangs system

[Jim Cornette]

Remco wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After installing Core 1 and booting for the first time I get stuck with the 
> login screen which doesn't respond to the keyboard (I didn't install X so 
> this is a console login).

USB legacy support caused me to have no keyboard in a terminal. I think 
that ACPI not being enabled also had something to do with my keyboard 
loss. Try adding acpi=on to your kernel line. If you have USB legacy 
support set in your BIOS, try disabling that feature.

> 
> After a while this error appears:
> 
> eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 2000.
> eth0: PCI bus error, bus status 00a00029
> 
> This error appears whenever I ping the machine from another box or when I just 
> wait a while.
> 
> When I shutdown, remove the nic (a 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang) and reboot the 
> same login freezes but I don't get the eth0 error.

This card is pretty common. I'm going to try this card again shortly. I 
think that there is a newer version of ethtool out. I hope something is 
changed in the program to get these cards working properly again.

> 
> Also, at boot-up, no error messages are generated and all services start-up 
> cleanly (all green OKs).
> 
> I understand that the eth0 error is caused by the system failing somewhere 
> else, however I get little feedback otherwise (no other errors). Moreover, I 
> tried running the install cd in rescue mode but it crashed spitting out a 
> nasty run-time error (some libs couldn't be found) so I have to figure out a 
> way to get at the logs.

If I'm thinking about the same logs. They might be in your /root 
directory. Without a keyboard, I don't know how you would get to the 
logs though.

Jim

> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion? I'll be going through my cds looking for 
> something to use as a rescue kit ;-)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Remco
> ----- 
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