I am attempting to install Mandrake 10 Official.

The install is freezing after a few minutes and it does not freeze at any specific time; it freezes randomnly each time.

I have a Atholon XP 1900, 512 ram, an MSI NForce2 motherboard, and a Geforce4 MX440 on the machine. I think the NForce2 mobo may be causing the problems.

I have searched other posts and for other solutions, but using linux noapic does not fix the freezing.

Does anyone know how to resolve this? Anyone had any success with an NForce2 mobo and MDK 10?

Try noapic nolapic. Both of them do the trick for me.

I have a new HPa320 which is an Althon 2800, nforce2, 512MB, gforce4mx and am also finding Mandrake Community 10 freezes part way through the installation process, at varying times. Quite frustrating.

I will try the suggestion above. Though as I am a raw newbie, I am not quite sure when to execute these commands. Presume I have to use a command line install? Help anyone?

Thanks

Mike

The parameters linux noapic nolapic worked for me. Thanks guys!

@Drimo: cheers
@mbpilot: First of all, I suggest you get the official version. www.easylinuxcds.com carries the powerpack version for $10.
About the parameters, when you get the boot screen (F1 for options, Enter to continue), press F1 and you'll get a console
boot:linux noapic nolapic
That tells the installer so it doesn't use apic or lapic and hopefully your installation won't freeze. Remember to append those parameters to your boot loader so you don't have stability problems while using Mandrake.
P.D. If you got the powerpack version, when you get to the part about configuring the boot loader, check Force no APIC and Force no local APIC which does the same thing, but automatically

Thanks for the suggestions. I indeed did use the command line to initiate installation and it did install successfully.

One lockup since then - perhaps I need to change the bootloader as indicated (once I work out how and where to do this).

Some other strange problems during install - all the selected rpms were not installed for some strange reason. Haven't worked out why. As you have probably guessed, I am new to Linux. I trying to boost my skills before getting into Asterisk.

Thanks for everybodies help.

Mike

I found "force no apic" in the boot loader part of the config; but nothing about "force no lapic". Is this hiding; or missing?

thanks

Mike

The Community Edition doesn't have that option. The one I have (10 official, powerpack) does. I assume the download official version has it too. You can always just add nolapic to the append box.

I have the install for the Community 10 also.

Would turning off APIC in the BIOS achieve the same results as the noapic nolapic parameters?

This worked flawlessly for me after many frustrating hours of choosing all the packages to install only to have the installation freeze on me randomly.

I now have MDK10 installed and the lan on the NForce2 motherboard worked 1st time too so on the net with no hacking yeah!!!! love it

Cheers!

'linux noapic nolapic' worked for me as well. After 5 failed attempts I was just about to give up before I found this thread.

It doesn't work for me... my keyboard are still freeze. :-?

I have an Asus A7V266-E motherboard (AMD) and a GeForce 4200 and had no problems installing the community version, but the Official version would freeze at the beginning of setup.

After clicking past the first couple screens in the GUI install, it would lock up solid. If I left it sitting for a while it would be fine. It was only after I clicked the first two or three menus.

What ended up working for me was unplugging my Microsoft optical wheel mouse from the USB port and plugging it into the PS/2 port with an adapter.. I have never had a problem in the past with this mouse on Linux, but it must have to do with the new kernel USB support..

I only had the community version installed for about 20 minutes before wiping it and installing the Official. I did have a few freezes while inside of 'Configure my computer' which was probably the mouse..

Alex