agamotto
January 25th, 2009, 05:15 AM
Hallo all, I recently put together a lunchbox to move up into the dual/quad core territory, and have been having a hell of a day with it.
Motherboard is an ASUS M2N68-VM which POSTS fine, with 2Gb of DDR2 memory. Cpu is Athlon 64 AM2 5600 running ~2.7Ghz. The BIOS detects both the IDE hd and dvd drive fine, but when it comes to running/booting anthing I keep getting errors like the following:
[00.004000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.
[00.0011680] ACPI: Aborted because invalid compressed format (err=1)
[00.0020001] ..MP-BIOS Bug: 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC
[00.587405] Invalid compressed format (err=1)
[00.589132] Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,1)
I have tried a Mythbuntu 64-bit live cd, the alternate cd, a Mythdora 64bit cd, Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit cd, and Knoppix live cd. Knoppix will come up, but it doesn't help me much, as this is going to be a Myth box of some flavor, once I can find something that will boot and install. With all of the other discs, I get to the 'click install' part, then stuff moves/noises a bit, and some variation on the above pops up. I never get to partition/boot/live environment. I tried turning off all ACPI stuff in the motherboard settings, but nothing changes that I can see.
Help?
Of all the idiot things that can go wrong with a motherboard... both the SATA and the IDE cable were toast from the start. I tried different cables as a joke, and magically, things started to work!
grrrrrr
Motherboard is an ASUS M2N68-VM which POSTS fine, with 2Gb of DDR2 memory. Cpu is Athlon 64 AM2 5600 running ~2.7Ghz. The BIOS detects both the IDE hd and dvd drive fine, but when it comes to running/booting anthing I keep getting errors like the following:
[00.004000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.
[00.0011680] ACPI: Aborted because invalid compressed format (err=1)
[00.0020001] ..MP-BIOS Bug: 8254 Timer not connected to IO-APIC
[00.587405] Invalid compressed format (err=1)
[00.589132] Kernel panic - Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (8,1)
I have tried a Mythbuntu 64-bit live cd, the alternate cd, a Mythdora 64bit cd, Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit cd, and Knoppix live cd. Knoppix will come up, but it doesn't help me much, as this is going to be a Myth box of some flavor, once I can find something that will boot and install. With all of the other discs, I get to the 'click install' part, then stuff moves/noises a bit, and some variation on the above pops up. I never get to partition/boot/live environment. I tried turning off all ACPI stuff in the motherboard settings, but nothing changes that I can see.
Help?
Of all the idiot things that can go wrong with a motherboard... both the SATA and the IDE cable were toast from the start. I tried different cables as a joke, and magically, things started to work!
grrrrrr