[Silvan]

Hi,

sorry this must be a bug that happens when installation tool is started two or more times after booting from live cd. Can you just retry starting installation tool and installation just after booting?

[Silvan]

I wonder what driver you are using now, is your chip know not to be working with open source modeset driver (radeon)?

Anyway you have to install xorg-drv-video-fglrx, then check that driver is installed and compiled correctly with sudo dkms status, then remove /etc/X11/Xorg.conf and reboot (of course this should be done after installing the system or using livecd on a persistent pendrive).

[Silvan]

Both should work, i586 is the traditional most complete and tested architecture, x86_64 is recent in openmamba and lacks some packages which may still require porting (this is not a big problem) plus still lacks some 32bit libraries support for some 32bit only non-free software (like Skype).

[Silvan]

Using the livecd you will start from a minimal installation and later you will be able to install from network all (or part of) the components that are in the livedvd.

Here I recommend livecd just to speed-up and simplify download & test for this basic problem.

From this page you can get any version, yes for the devel version you need to download the latest weekly snapshot:

http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/download.html

[Silvan]

Hi Bhatta,

thanks for taking the time to report the problem and taking the pictures.

Unfortunately the report couldn’t be created because the computer serial number contains ‘/’ which are not escaped by the openmamba-makereport (now fixed for future releases). You may want to retry running openmamba-makereport after editing or deleting the file /etc/sysconfig/machine.

BTW image-1426 shows a X crash while detecting the video driver, this may be caused by the ATI proprietary driver, the report should give further details on the problem by including /var/log/Xorg.*.log files.

Also you might try booting the devel (snapshot) livecd or livedvd releases which contain more up-to-date user-space drivers.

[Silvan]

Hi,

can you access a console by pressing CTRL-ALT-F2? If so you might try to generate a system report with the openmamba-makereport command, copy the output file outside someway and attach it here or send to reports @ openmamba.org for me to check.

[Silvan]

If you fell into a recently seen problem after a kernel upgrade which shows as a kernel error on a black screen, try pressing CTRL-ALT-F2 then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get back to the desktop, then if network works, do a system upgrade and reboot.

[Silvan]

Anch’io ho provato e mi sembra che funzioni, ho creato una discussione e poi l’ho cancellata.

[Silvan]

Hi Tweedle,

yes the bootusb instructions need to be rewritten since 2.0pre3, thank you for reporting.

BTW if you have a working installation of openmamba 2.0pre3 the easiest way to make a live USB pendrive is by using the “usbinstall” tool that you find in the applications menu under System -> openmamba.

[Silvan]

There are no preset passwords in openmamba, normally when this happens it’s because of a bug in desktop environment startup. You can press CTRL-ALT-F2 to access a console where you can set a password but that won’t fix the problem. The cause of the problem might be visible in /root/.xsession-errors or you can generate a detailed report by running the command openmamba-makereport and then send the output file to reports@openmamba.org for us to examine it. Regards.

[Silvan]

So the problem must be elsewhere. You can start the system in debug mode and take a snapshot of the last messages by following these instructions:

http://wiki.openmamba.org/en/index.php/Problems_when_the_system_starts

Have you configured in the box a combination of IDE and SATA drives? This may issue a known problem in the root= kernel parameter, so you also can try with different root= boot options. Anyway we can diagnose this by looking at the debug messages as said above.

[Silvan]

I’ve successfully installed the latest snapshot (20100719) under VirtualBox. The box is configured with an IDE Controller PIIX4, maybe you set up a SATA or SCSI controller?

[Silvan]

I’m going to test a VirtualBox installation to see and fix this as this problem should happen independently from hardware.

[Silvan]

I’ve seen in past such problems with combinations of IDE/SATA disks, is that your situation? Can you provide the installation log that is called /var/log/install*.log and is in the installed openmamba partition? You may attach it here or more privately to reports<at>openmamba<dot>org. Thanks.

[Silvan]

I don’t have a solution yet, but can you check if you get sound from headphones?

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