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Old 04-15-2006, 06:14 PM   #1
truckadsjoe
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MINI ITX EPIA 6000 fresh LInux install wont boot


I have just built a Mini ITX using a EPIA via6000 mobo w/512 ram, 250gb drive, I have loaded a new copy of Mandriva - linux, when I go to boot up it goes through a long string of boot up info, the last command line I see go on the screen before it stops it a ASLA ? then the screen goes blank, the hard drive light flashes a few more times and nothing happens. At boot up I am given 5 choices, Windows, Linux 512-1gb, linux fsb, linux safe mode and one other, the only one that does not go to a loop of the bios screen, then boot up sequence back to bios screen is the linux 512-1gb. So I press it and then it goes to the long boot up sequence and dies??

I partitioned the disk when the install asked me to, at 120 gb for windows, 120 for linux and 10 for swap.

Could the issue be that it is not connected to an ethernet cable?

Thanks for any help.
 
Old 04-16-2006, 10:09 PM   #2
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Firstly I'm wondering about the install did you have any errors? Secondly what Mandriva is it . The current one is "One" I think
10 Gig for swap seems too big mine is 1 Gig and its heaps.
Swap space
Extract from WIKI this site
Almost every Linux system will need swap space. The classic piece of advice is "swap should be double the amount of RAM you have", though this is not a rigid guideline. Another guideline is to have at least 1x your RAM size, but this also isn't a fixed, absolute requirement (this used to be necessary for linux, but not anymore for recent versions). It depends mainly on what applications you want to run. Applications like video/movie editing, 3d rendering, large image editing, database servers and web application servers can use a lot of memory and if you don't have that as RAM, it will need a large swap space.
A good way te decide the size, is to just try and see. Pick a size (it is usually easier to reduce the swap size after-wards, so aim high) and run your 'normal' workload for a while and see how much swap is used (See Memory diagnostic tools). You can then adjust/resize the partitions or re-partition completely.
To optimize for speed, it is advisable to put the swap partition on a different hard disk (if you have one) instead of on the main hard disk with the OS on it. It is also possible to spread the swap space over multiple hard disks, this can also increase the speed. Linux can handle multiple swap spaces, and each swap space can have a priority (pri=somenumber in fstab, also see swapon command).

Don't see the relevance of the ethernet cable. You don't have to have it connected to a network for it to boot properly.

Somebody else might know about the Hardware ,I don't.

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Old 04-17-2006, 08:19 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by bobbelfield
Firstly I'm wondering about the install did you have any errors? Secondly what Mandriva is it . The current one is "One" I think
10 Gig for swap seems too big mine is 1 Gig and its heaps.
Swap space
Extract from WIKI this site
Almost every Linux system will need swap space. The classic piece of advice is "swap should be double the amount of RAM you have", though this is not a rigid guideline. Another guideline is to have at least 1x your RAM size, but this also isn't a fixed, absolute requirement (this used to be necessary for linux, but not anymore for recent versions). It depends mainly on what applications you want to run. Applications like video/movie editing, 3d rendering, large image editing, database servers and web application servers can use a lot of memory and if you don't have that as RAM, it will need a large swap space.
A good way te decide the size, is to just try and see. Pick a size (it is usually easier to reduce the swap size after-wards, so aim high) and run your 'normal' workload for a while and see how much swap is used (See Memory diagnostic tools). You can then adjust/resize the partitions or re-partition completely.
To optimize for speed, it is advisable to put the swap partition on a different hard disk (if you have one) instead of on the main hard disk with the OS on it. It is also possible to spread the swap space over multiple hard disks, this can also increase the speed. Linux can handle multiple swap spaces, and each swap space can have a priority (pri=somenumber in fstab, also see swapon command).

Don't see the relevance of the ethernet cable. You don't have to have it connected to a network for it to boot properly.

Somebody else might know about the Hardware ,I don't.
Thanks, it is version 1. I will reduce the size of the swap and see if it helps. No errors on install, it went very smoothly. I have windows on the other 1/2 of the hd and it runs fine so far. I do not think it is a faulty hardware issue, maybe a conflict, I just do not know how to diagnose it, yet.
 
  


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