NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am trying to load Naslite onto a new AMD system, it gets as far as Booting the Kernal and that's it.... any suggestions please?
John

One other point I omitted to note is that I have a Raid 1 storage system configured.

What is the last output you get before it halts?

Hello

I get the following:-

Uncompressing the NASLite Kernel ......
OK, booting the Kernel.


thx

john

How much RAM? Try disabling ACPI in the BIOS and see if that works. While you are at it disable all you don't need, LPT, COM, AUDIO, etc.

I had an AMD pc-chips board that did that and turning ACPI off fixed the problem.

RAM is 1G and it is interesting about the ACPI feature it is enabled but I cannot select it in the BIOS to disable ( as it is Greyed out). Also I cannot find a jumper on the mother board to deselect it. The Mother board is ASUS M2N4-SL1

I have an AMD dual core processor installed.

Thx

John

OK, In an attempt to simplify things I have :-

1. Removed Raid functionality
2. Installed a Sempron AMD processor
3. Disabled ACPI

But I still get the same problem with the system hanging after I get teh Installing Kernel message.

Thx

John

I must say this is quite a frustrating time, I had a very good experience in installing my first copy of NASlite, this is quite disappointing. Although I haven't 'officially purchased my second copy yet ( I wanted to make absolutely sure it worked on the AMD PC) I am not sure if I want to proceed, I have been in touch with Server Elements to ask if the AMD product was OK and they confirmed YES, I then report this issue and I have had nothing back from them.

I can only assume that this is a problem with NAslite in that it cannot recognize my Sata storage devices, although all the documentation clearly states that it should work in an emulated IDE mode at it's most basic. I know it is not really 100% relevant but Win Xp and other Linux distros do load OK on my system.

Moderator any feedback please????????

In cases like this, to eliminate possible causes, it's best to start with a bare minimum. I'd take all cards out of the machine, turn off or disable any options in the BIOS that are unnecessary or cause trouble. Also set PnP in the BIOS to NO in order to allow for IRQ reallocation after the changes. Once that's done, try to boot and see if the kernel completes. I suspect there is a hardware problem that is preventing the kernel to probe. Could be a host of things, so start with nothing but the bare essentials.

Hope that helps...

OK I have switched off everything I can in the BIOS, my PC has the follwoing

Keyboard
Mouse
Monitor through a PCI E Gforce 7200
2 Sata drives connected

And the problem still persists... if I remove the SATA drives will it still boot without any storage detectable?

thx

John

After I sent the last post I removed the Sata drives connections from the Motherboard ........ no difference..

I would have thought that any hardware issue at this level would have impacted the W xp and other Linux distro loads which seem to be fine.


John

Did you disable ACPI in the BIOS? Also try different RAM.

Yes ACPI is disabled.

I do not understand why I should replace perfectly good RAM ??

Thx

John

I've had problems with RAM in the past. Don't have any specific explanation.

Progress I think.

After re checking all the contributor input to this thread I went back into the BIOS and disabled everything I could .. and i now get passed the Booting the Kernel message. after a lot of trial and error it appears that on my ASUS M2N4 - SL1 motherboard (yes slightly over the top for this app) NASLite does not like 4 SATA II connections I have to disable 3 and 4, then it starts to boot up. but does not complete. I get a message
ieee1394:sbp2: Driver forced to Serialize IO ........ which I find a little strange because this seems to refer to Fire Wire interface and I do not have any on this motherboard. ...

At this point I discover that the boot process is being impacted by my USB ports being enabled, after I disable them I still get the message above but the Boot process now proceeds to the login stage. After typing the password I get an error message flash up on the screen which I cannot fully read but it is something like:-

No Such file exists
cat: ???????????? /dev_eth

Then I can proceed as normal.

Feeling confident I purchase my official second copy of NASLite and proceed to configure my system only to find that as soon as I configure the IP address, save the config and reboot the system hangs after displaying the License number information in the boot process. And the only way I can get out of this is to reset my PC, if I load the system without the Floppy it loads OK but it is of no use to me in this un-configured state.

Anybody got any ideas please?

THX

John