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From: No_One on 1 Apr 2008 17:43
I'm having problems getting slack 12 to insall on this machine which now has
slack 9. It uses a toshiba cd-rom, xm-5206b. Pop the install cd in,
reboot, the install ids all the equipment, but then freezes at "Reading all
physical Volumes, this may take a while." Nothng happens after - 1, 2, 3, 4
minutes. Tried the huge.s, and hugesmp.s, even tried the speakup.s and same
problem. Changed a variety of bios setting, play and play yes and no, moved
it from the secondary ide to the primary slave...nothing helps.

Any ideas...I've gone over the docs...I must be missing something.


If i can get to the packages install, I can, if I have to, install the
packages from a second hard drive.

FYI, had a problem when I installed slack 9, used bare.i, eveything when
fine, cfdisk, setup and all, until the package install, wouldn't
recogonize the cdrom. Got around that problem by coping the disks on
another computer to that hard drive and mounting that hard drive in the
gateway and telling the install to use /dev/hdf1/slackware for the package
source.

ken


From: marksouth on 2 Apr 2008 05:28
On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:43:53 -0500, No_One wrote:

> I'm having problems getting slack 12 to insall on this machine which now
> has slack 9. It uses a toshiba cd-rom, xm-5206b. Pop the install cd
> in, reboot, the install ids all the equipment, but then freezes at
> "Reading all physical Volumes, this may take a while." Nothng happens
> after - 1, 2, 3, 4 minutes. Tried the huge.s, and hugesmp.s, even tried
> the speakup.s and same problem. Changed a variety of bios setting, play
> and play yes and no, moved it from the secondary ide to the primary
> slave...nothing helps.

Pat changed the CD volume blocksize from the old 4 to the new 32 and a
lot of other people have had non-booting or non-identification issues
with Slack 12 since.

First try: boot with ide=nodma.

Second try: burn your own CDs with the old blocksize (GIYF).
From: No_One on 2 Apr 2008 22:13
On 2008-04-02, marksouth <ms(a)really.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:43:53 -0500, No_One wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems getting slack 12 to insall on this machine which now
>> has slack 9. It uses a toshiba cd-rom, xm-5206b. Pop the install cd
>> in, reboot, the install ids all the equipment, but then freezes at
>> "Reading all physical Volumes, this may take a while." Nothng happens
>> after - 1, 2, 3, 4 minutes. Tried the huge.s, and hugesmp.s, even tried
>> the speakup.s and same problem. Changed a variety of bios setting, play
>> and play yes and no, moved it from the secondary ide to the primary
>> slave...nothing helps.
>
> Pat changed the CD volume blocksize from the old 4 to the new 32 and a
> lot of other people have had non-booting or non-identification issues
> with Slack 12 since.
>
> First try: boot with ide=nodma.
>
> Second try: burn your own CDs with the old blocksize (GIYF).

Thanks for the info....I think I can get the bugs worked out, unfortuantely,
ran out of time. I'll have to wait until the weekend. I have an extra
cdrom someplace...maybe a change over might help...regardless, everything is
off until the weekend. Will try the ide=nodma.

Again, thanks....

ken
From: Kees Theunissen on 2 Apr 2008 23:41
marksouth wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:43:53 -0500, No_One wrote:
>
>> I'm having problems getting slack 12 to insall on this machine which now
>> has slack 9. It uses a toshiba cd-rom, xm-5206b. Pop the install cd
>> in, reboot, the install ids all the equipment, but then freezes at
>> "Reading all physical Volumes, this may take a while." Nothng happens
>> after - 1, 2, 3, 4 minutes. Tried the huge.s, and hugesmp.s, even tried
>> the speakup.s and same problem. Changed a variety of bios setting, play
>> and play yes and no, moved it from the secondary ide to the primary
>> slave...nothing helps.
>
> Pat changed the CD volume blocksize from the old 4 to the new 32 and a
> lot of other people have had non-booting or non-identification issues
> with Slack 12 since.
>
> First try: boot with ide=nodma.
>
> Second try: burn your own CDs with the old blocksize (GIYF).

That blocksize change made the CDs unbootable on some systems.
That does not seem to be the OP's problem.

Regards,

Kees.

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Kees Theunissen.
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