pman2
October 23rd, 2013, 09:44 AM
Hello,
after several days of exhaustive testing I am at my wits end, so I hop this forum can give me some answers:
I have a Foxconn barebones machine that was running on Ubuntu 11 and neede to be upgraded. I decided to go for a clean install, so I made a backup of the user's home directory and tried to install Ubuntu 12.04.3 32-bit on it. I tried the following:
- booting from a USB disk made with 'unetbootin'
- booting from a DVD disk with the 12.04.3 image on it
- installing the HD on another machine with the 12.04.3 image, and then inserting the disk in this machine.
In all cases, the result is as follows: the machine boots, and then goes dark, with the disk activity light off most of the time, occasionally flickering. No progress is made (I even let the machine sit through the night one time).
I tried to boot into 'rescue' mode from the installed disk, this works, the menu comes up, I can check disks, go to a prompt, rebuild the dpkg database, etc. But if I try to boot from there, a blank screen again.
Because I saw several posts on foxconn motherboards having problems with Linux, I decided to upgrade the Bios (using a freedos bootimage), and this worked, I now have the latest bios for this motherboard.
The motherboard is a Foxconn 45cs, with the following specs:
Specification
Intel® AtomTM single-core 230 processor mounted onboard
Intel® 945GC + ICH7
533 MHz (FSB)
I have 2 GB RAM installed, which I already checked with the memtest program (no errors found after a night's testing...)
I also tried several HDs, but all give the same result.
I have a suspicion that the problem is related to the video settings, so I am thinking of adding a separate videocard instead of the built-in Intel graphics. I also tried to change some of the related bios settings, but nothing worked. I have now reverted back to the 'optimized' defaults again.
Does anybody have any idea how to proceed?
Peter Mansvelder
after several days of exhaustive testing I am at my wits end, so I hop this forum can give me some answers:
I have a Foxconn barebones machine that was running on Ubuntu 11 and neede to be upgraded. I decided to go for a clean install, so I made a backup of the user's home directory and tried to install Ubuntu 12.04.3 32-bit on it. I tried the following:
- booting from a USB disk made with 'unetbootin'
- booting from a DVD disk with the 12.04.3 image on it
- installing the HD on another machine with the 12.04.3 image, and then inserting the disk in this machine.
In all cases, the result is as follows: the machine boots, and then goes dark, with the disk activity light off most of the time, occasionally flickering. No progress is made (I even let the machine sit through the night one time).
I tried to boot into 'rescue' mode from the installed disk, this works, the menu comes up, I can check disks, go to a prompt, rebuild the dpkg database, etc. But if I try to boot from there, a blank screen again.
Because I saw several posts on foxconn motherboards having problems with Linux, I decided to upgrade the Bios (using a freedos bootimage), and this worked, I now have the latest bios for this motherboard.
The motherboard is a Foxconn 45cs, with the following specs:
Specification
Intel® AtomTM single-core 230 processor mounted onboard
Intel® 945GC + ICH7
533 MHz (FSB)
I have 2 GB RAM installed, which I already checked with the memtest program (no errors found after a night's testing...)
I also tried several HDs, but all give the same result.
I have a suspicion that the problem is related to the video settings, so I am thinking of adding a separate videocard instead of the built-in Intel graphics. I also tried to change some of the related bios settings, but nothing worked. I have now reverted back to the 'optimized' defaults again.
Does anybody have any idea how to proceed?
Peter Mansvelder