Topic: New Install won't Boot

[mgsnell]

After installing SME 7.0r2, the system won't boot. It stops at "Unknown VIA Southbridge ... disabling DMA ... "

I have two 200gb ide drives with one on each ide channel(IDE1 and IDE2) the Southbridge chipset is VIA 8237R.

Is there a solution to this?

Thanks

Marvin

[mgsnell]

As a side note, this is not an issue with 7.0rc1. However, I am having problems with the software installer. It says updates are available, but when I go the the next panel there are no updates showing.

Marvin

[CharlieBrady]

After installing SME 7.0r2, the system won't boot. It stops at "Unknown VIA Southbridge ... disabling DMA ... "

Please report all problems via the Bug Tracker, and only report them there (so all relevant information goes into one place - the place which might lead to a solution). Thanks.

[compdoc]

The VIA 8237R southbridge seems pretty common - you'd think it would work.  DMA is usually hard drive related. Are you using ata/100 cables? What channel is the cd drive on? Might want to try one hdd as primary master, and the CD on secondary master, without the 2nd hdd, just to test.

[mgsnell]

As for the cables yes. This error message as I indicated with all other things (hardware) being equal, did not show up when I then tried to install 7.0rc1, but did when I tried 6.0.1.

At this point, I have a fully functional server (mode) install that is updated and shows 7.0rc2 (through yum updates. The hard drive setup is that on ide channel 1 I have one disk as master and primary. On ide channel 2 I have another hard drive (same make size etc) as master and primary, with the cd drive as slave.