Hi, On 4/27/19 23:39, roberto.guardato wrote:
Hi, here are results of some tests carried out on the same hardware as above: i was able to complete the installation by selecting always proposed options. If i change the system language to italian is not possible to complete installation of the boot loader (grub).
That'd be an interesting issue.
In attach syslogs of the tests performed.
I compared the two syslogs and it looks like the amount of RAM has changed between the two runs (5 GiB for "ita" and 4 GiB for "eng"). If you didn't change the amount of memory of your machine between the runs, then it could be that some of your memory modules are flaky. Before continuing you should maybe first check each pair of memory modules separately and only use those that are considered good by the machine. The service source for your mid 2004 type 7,3 gives the following debug info for POST: * 1 Flash: No RAM is installed or detected. * 2 Flashes: Incompatible RAM types are installed. * 3 Flashes: No RAM banks passed memory testing. With more than one pair installed, the machine might come up with the flaky memory disabled or enabled, with the latter being the more problematic case I think, as you're then using potentially bad memory. If all pairs test good, either remove the one that makes up the last 1 GiB (assuming the machine can only deactivate a complete pair) or just use one of the two other pairs. **** I also checked the text files with the command output I requested. The one from `cat /proc/partitions` looks OK, assuming your system disk is `/dev/sdb`. But the one for `partmap /dev/sdb` yields `loop` which is totally strange. I seem to remember that the partitioning step sometimes does not overwrite an existing "disk label" even if it is not compatible with the target machine - not sure though how to create a label that is identified as "loop" by partmap. So could it be that the used disk was already pre-labeled? To clear that, try `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<DISK_DEVICE> bs=4M count=128`. OTOH as your second try worked - not sure why though - you could just try with Italian and the very same disk a second time. The disk label should be correct now. Maybe now it will just work? Cheers, Frank
