yicky yacky wrote: > Boot started well, then froze as "Couldn't mount CD". A short period of Google > bashing and experimenting with DMA settings later, and the PIIX driver was > isolated as the problem. The fix was to boot in expert, jump straight to "Load > Installer Modules", remove PIIX, jump backwards and start again. Could you follow up with the lpsci output that you left out of the report (you only included lspci -n output, which is only half of the picture). > Once that was surmounted, everything was pretty flawless under the 2.4 kernel. > Under the 2.6 kernel, a strange problem started manifesting itself at the > partitioning stage. Everything went fine until going into The RAID > configuration dialogue, but after clicking on "Final", the system gradually > got slower and slower and slower over a period of time, to the point where > the install became protractedly painful to sit through. Tried ps-ing in the > F2 shell, but no top, so no detailed info. At this point I was labouring > under the silly misconception that the 2.6 kernel was required for a 2.6 > system. Once I was disabused of that notion, I went through again and the > whole thing took only about 15 minutes. If you were using raid, it might be due to the kernel building the raid array in the background. This is supposed to only use otherwise unused disk IO but it has been known to sometimes cause problems, especailly when combined with certian filesystems and/or LVM, and could explain the kernel version dependent nature of the problem. More details about your raid setup and what filesystems you chose would be useful. -- see shy jo
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