Lockups during install

[Matt Patterson]

Try booting with the lovely noapic, nolapic, noacpi, acpi=off, noinotify 
options for the kernel. Those are places in the kernel where I/O 
intensive bugs show readily (most likely a bug in your mobo though, but 
turning off the special features might help).

Matt



Brad Griffith wrote:

>I'm putting together a new PC for Ubuntu and I am getting lockups during
>installation (Either a hard lock during the formatting of the hard drive
>or a segfault during base install). I've tried with Warty, Hoary, and
>Breezy Colony 3. My motherboard is an nForce2-based Chaintech 7NJL6.
>Nothing seems to be overheating.
>An interesting thing to note is that running a LiveCD, both the warty
>live CD and SLAX, works very well and there are no lockups. memtest
>passed perfectly on SLAX. And when I tried to format hda1 while in the
>Ubuntu LiveCD, I got a lockup again. 
>So it is apparently something related to the hard drive or the I/O
>controller. I believe it is the I/O controller because the hard drive
>was working just last week in an older system and this morning I ran out
>to buy a new hard drive just to make sure that wasn't the problem. Same
>symptoms with the new drive?
>Is there some special boot parameter I have to use with my motherboard
>or something? How do I even figure out what I/O controller is onboard?
>Please help. This is quite frustrating. Thank you.
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>Cheers,
>Brad
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