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Post by markm on Jun 22, 2010 8:50:46 GMT -5
Trying the KNOS64 version. Intel D975XBX2 motherboard Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 cpu 8 GB RAM 2Ware 9500S-4LP SATA RAID controller nVidia GeForce 8500T video adapter Plextor SATA dvd/rw JLMS IDE dvd/rw What I am seeing on boot attempt is: "Starting ....etc" "KNOS is now ....etc. Please be patient" "/boot/kernel/kernel text=0xb0e450 data=0x1385b8+0xc7218" "Booting [boot/kernel/kernel]...
And that's where it stays. Tried it twice on each DVD drive waiting 10 minutes each time and it just doesn't go any further. It did work on one of my other machines (with MSI P965 Platinum motherboard, etc) so the DVD disk seems to be OK. Looks good by the way. Please let me know if there is any additional information you need or perhaps any BIOS changes you recommend. They are all at the factory defaults.
MarkM
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jun 23, 2010 1:04:23 GMT -5
Trying the KNOS64 version. Intel D975XBX2 motherboard Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 cpu 8 GB RAM 2Ware 9500S-4LP SATA RAID controller nVidia GeForce 8500T video adapter Plextor SATA dvd/rw JLMS IDE dvd/rw What I am seeing on boot attempt is: "Starting ....etc" "KNOS is now ....etc. Please be patient" "/boot/kernel/kernel text=0xb0e450 data=0x1385b8+0xc7218" "Booting [boot/kernel/kernel]...
And that's where it stays. Tried it twice on each DVD drive waiting 10 minutes each time and it just doesn't go any further. It did work on one of my other machines (with MSI P965 Platinum motherboard, etc) so the DVD disk seems to be OK. Looks good by the way. Please let me know if there is any additional information you need or perhaps any BIOS changes you recommend. They are all at the factory defaults. MarkM Sorry to say, if it's not kicking up at all, then no way to get diagnostics to dig further. MSI mainboards shouldn't be a problem at all but two possibilities come to mind that may or may not make any difference. BIOS possibility exists that it's set in AHCI mode for the SATA stuff ... you might try a boot after setting it to IDE mode or if it's already in IDE mode, try the AHCI. According to one of my sources, the AHCI mode is supposed to "pipeline" Win Vista/7 startup by throwing the kitchen sink at the OS, or in other words, doing a lot of "read ahead" which might be choking KNOS from a slower source like a DVD as opposed to a hard disk. Maybe ... but that's a pretty easy one to try and see if it makes any difference. The more challenging one would be seeing if you could temporarily take out some of that memory and drop it from 8GB to maybe 4GB and see if that makes any difference. KNOS tops out at 8GB by current design and shouldn't have any problems, but I did have to diddle a build once with an 8GB Macintosh where a similar thing happened. That was the result of a problem with one of the chip controllers in the Macintosh not working as expected but never encountered that anywhere else. Yet. But those'd be my two guesses if you're up to the challenge ... and if you DO manage to get it to boot with either/or, would like to see the diagnostics data from the full boot so we can make sure that doesn't happen again once we see what hardware you've got in there ...
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Post by markm on Jun 23, 2010 8:31:53 GMT -5
Changing the BIOS setting, for the SATA mode from ACHI to IDE did the trick. I'm sending this from the KNOS desktop. I've sent an email to knos@verizon.net with the output of the diagnostic attached. I'd like to know what you find and hope this will help improve future versions.
markm
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