svet-am
January 10th, 2009, 10:52 PM
First off, here's my system:
2x nVidia 8800GTX (SLI)
1x Creative Audigy 2 ZS
4GB (4x1GB DDR2) SDRAM
nVidia nForce 680i SLI mainboard from eVGA with latest BIOS
Intel Q6700 Core2Quad
1x Western Digital 500GB SATA drive (primary)
1x Seagate 400GB SATA drive (secondary)
1x Sony PATA DVD-ROM
1x LG PATA DVD-RW
I can boot into the LiveCD version of Intrepid just fine. During the installer, Intrepid sees both of my hard disks and lets me customize my partitions. I set things up how I want and go through the GUI and then click "install"
At this point, the installer reports that it's setting up the partition on / for my primary hard disk. It gets to about 5% done (still while formatting /) and then all disk activity quits and I can no longer move my mouse or type on my keypad (numlock is stuck on and cannot be toggled). At this point, the only way to get the machine to do anything is to cycle the power.
Has anyone else run into this? I want to try to boot the installer in text-only mode but I cannot figure what the proper boot flag is in order to boot text mode instead of GUI mode.
thanks in advance!
2x nVidia 8800GTX (SLI)
1x Creative Audigy 2 ZS
4GB (4x1GB DDR2) SDRAM
nVidia nForce 680i SLI mainboard from eVGA with latest BIOS
Intel Q6700 Core2Quad
1x Western Digital 500GB SATA drive (primary)
1x Seagate 400GB SATA drive (secondary)
1x Sony PATA DVD-ROM
1x LG PATA DVD-RW
I can boot into the LiveCD version of Intrepid just fine. During the installer, Intrepid sees both of my hard disks and lets me customize my partitions. I set things up how I want and go through the GUI and then click "install"
At this point, the installer reports that it's setting up the partition on / for my primary hard disk. It gets to about 5% done (still while formatting /) and then all disk activity quits and I can no longer move my mouse or type on my keypad (numlock is stuck on and cannot be toggled). At this point, the only way to get the machine to do anything is to cycle the power.
Has anyone else run into this? I want to try to boot the installer in text-only mode but I cannot figure what the proper boot flag is in order to boot text mode instead of GUI mode.
thanks in advance!