lundman Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I took down 10.4.8 to see if it would pretend to work or not, it boots up, reading the messages it did give some "Illegal instruction" running one of the startup scripts, something along the lines of starting kintrd etc. Eventually, it ended up in an infinite loop printing ...installer filesystem is read-only Which sound like it failed to mount a memoryfs to play with, and fails to proceed. No chance in hell to have it run, or known issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lundman Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 Oh heh, the "oh so helpful" how do download sticky, says just to get it, not WHAT to get. Seems I should get something called JaS. Anyway, installs ok, but when trying to boot I get the dreaded Unable to find driver for this platform "ACPI" So, I'm guessing it does not run well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecotopian Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I would try the tubgirl distro since you are doing an AMD install - the tubgirl version is specific to AMD only - you may have installed with some Intel extensions that don't work with the AMD cpus - see my sig for hardware specs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lundman Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 tubgirl? JaS? Man, what is it with the names! Ok, I'll see if I can find it and download that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lundman Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 Burnt, installed and boots! Shocking. Not sure the NVidia (6800GT) is 100% right, something about kernel module not loading, but it lets me pick a high res so that is ok, but felt a tad slow to use. Neither nics show up (onboard broadcom, and added RTL card) bummer, but I do have old nic cards around that I know show up. No sound (onboard disabled, doesn't work in XP/win2k anyway - add on card is a AOpen Cobra (CMI chipset)). SATA no work (does not see HDD). Amusingly enough, it DOES see the Buffalo USBv2 PCI card. Which is a card I've had troubles with in XP Is it just me, or does it spend 60% of the install time, installing printer drivers, for printers that 99.9% I don't own! :censored2: Thanks for the hint though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 you can deselct the printers :censored2: that saves you about 2gb of worthless drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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