Hi, test following kernelparameters:
pci=nomsi (this works on my Asus Crosshair Formula II with Nvidia 780a SLI Chipset) noapic acpi=off Am 31.08.2009 09:08, schrieb Nathan Norton: > > Hi, > > I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte > GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard. > > Has anyone got centos booting on this motherboard? > > so far I have tried the following. > > + disabled the jmicron controller as this caused errors on booting > JMB363 bad irq(0): will probe later error (this error caused the > installation to stop at this point) > > + tested all components in another computer, they all work. > > + remove all unnecessary components from the pci bus. > > + power supply is not an issue since I have used a 850W PSU > > Basically what I am seeing is once the installation process starts and asks > do i have another sata disk, and I select no the screen freezes at this point > *every* single time, the screen is always blue with a couple of greek looking > characters on the screen. No logs are left at this point in the installation, > so it is making it difficult to diagnose. > > Today I installed the grml distribution and it worked with no issues, it > uses a base kernel of 2.6.28. so there is nothing wrong with the hardware but > centos still does not want to install on this motherboard. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
