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Author:  GuiGuy [ Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Autoinstall hangs on formatting
From the outset, I have never had any luck getting MythTV or KnoppMyth to run, although I have tried many, many times over the years.

Anyway, with release of R5F1 I thought I'd try again. The hardware is a Gigabyte MOBO, AMD 2200+ Sempron, 1G RAM, ATI Radeon 9200, 120G Seagate IDE HDD (clean), Winfast DBTV1000-T, and a Liteon DVD burner.

The box had been running Ubuntu for the last six months and is known to be stable.

When I attempt to run an automatic install (manual is beyond me as it makes my head hurt. Well, the instructions make my head hurt :? ), all is fine until the formatting of the HDD starts.

"Formatting /dev/hda1 as ext3 ..."

The progress bar shoots to 14% and then stops. Given that the indicator stays on 14% and nothing else is happening (after an hour or so), I assume the install has hung itself or gone to pub for a beer.

I have tried an alternative HDD, but it makes no difference.

Any help, anyone?

Thanks :? :?
Author:  mjl [ Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:08 pm ]
Post subject: 
Hi,

Auto install expects the hard drive to be hda and set with jumper to be master and the cd rom to be hdc. Auto install with F1 should be a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon :)

Manual install of F1 has issues.

R5E50 auto / manual install are fine.

Be sure to check tjc's excellent Hint&Tips!

(once you install KM, use gparted and resize the myth partition ~6gig then you can add your ubuntu back in if you want to do so. Both will use the same swap) pm me for extra details if you do.

Mike
Author:  GuiGuy [ Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:43 pm ]
Post subject: 
mjl wrote:
Hi,

Auto install expects the hard drive to be hda and set with jumper to be master and the cd rom to be hdc. Auto install with F1 should be a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon :)


Thanks- I'd set the HDD to cable select. It's installing now. I'll report back when I hit the next brick wall :D
Author:  GuiGuy [ Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:48 am ]
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mjl wrote:
Auto install with F1 should be a walk in the park on a Sunday afternoon :)


Yes it was! Brilliant.

Thanks


The GuiGuy
Author:  mjl [ Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:59 am ]
Post subject: 
Hi,

Enjoy and thank Cecil for his great work :)

Mike
Author:  LVBen [ Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:06 am ]
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My computer was locking up at 14% trying to format hda. I tried installing manually and it installed OK, but it would not boot.

I ran the installation in debug mode and found out that hda was my cd-rw drive. I changed my cables around so my hard drive was the primary master, so that hda was my hard drive and ran the auto install. It worked fine and then booted up fine.

Now I just need to figure out how to play DVDs.
Author:  BluesBrian [ Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:58 pm ]
Post subject: 
LVBen wrote:
My computer was locking up at 14% trying to format hda...

I came across this problem myself with a new motherboard (ASUS P5K-V) that sets the SATA drives as hda .. and PATA starting as hde even if there are not SATA drives present. My solution was just to get and use SATA drive and be "done with PATA" for that machine.
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