CentOS - Aug 2009 - Centos 5.3 install on gigabyte GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard

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

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 05:08:18PM +1000, Nathan Norton
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having some difficulties installing centos 5.3 on the gigabyte
GA-MA790FX-UD5P motherboard.
Not that it will help you any, but I"ve got Centos 5.3 on my Gigabyte
MA770-UD3 board. Probably different enough that it's not a valid data point.

I was looking at a different Gigabyte board. Not certain but it may have
been the one you have, but couldn't find out if Linux--especially an
older one like Centos--supported all the new chipsets on the board, so I
backed off to one where I could find mention of other people running 
Linux on it.

My guess is that you'll need a newer distro for that board. Keep in mind
that Centos 5 was not leading edge when the upstream provider released it
two years ago. It is intended to be stable, not bleeding edge.

Good luck!
> 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
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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
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>

Hi
with the kernel parameters  ...
nousb nousbstorage nomsi nodm nodmraid noapic acpi=off pci=nomsi

worked for me ...


Nathan Norton schrieb:
> 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