Installing on new hardware hangs

[lappup]

Booting from the live CD I've used to install on 3 different machines now, I've encountered an issue when the kernel loads to memory. Running in verbose, the install reports:

enabling IO-APIC IRQs
TIMER vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0

and the install goes no further. No kernel panic or error thrown.

Anyone have any ideas? I have searched before making this post.

Thanks

[DMcCunney]

Booting from the live CD I've used to install on 3 different machines now, I've encountered an issue when the kernel loads to memory. Running in verbose, the install reports:

enabling IO-APIC IRQs
TIMER vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0

and the install goes no further. No kernel panic or error thrown.

Anyone have any ideas? I have searched before making this post.

Not without more information.

First, I'm confused. Are you saying you had the same error trying to install on three different machines, or that you successfully installed three times and are having problems on the fourth?

Second, which Live CD are you using - the current 4.12 release, or something else?

Third, what are the specs on the machines you are trying to install to?

If you see the same problem on several different machine, you may have a bad Live CD copy, and need to DL and burn a fresh one.
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Dennis

[lappup]

Sorry, I guess it does sound somewhat confusing. I have used the same CD to install on 3 different machines. This machine has the same soundcard, network card and physical drive as one I was able to install on, the only difference being that this one is a dual CPU (2x Pentium III) board not a single CPU board.

I have tried to boot to the live CD with PNP disabled in BIOS and acpi disabled from the Puppy boot menu with the same result.

[lappup]

Bump: The new version also won't install on this particular machine

[Béèm]

I think we are confused about the lack of precise info.
f.e. what in your mind is 'the new version'?
That may not be the same thing as in my mind.

[lappup]

Version 4.3.1 of the main distro, not a puplet. Won't boot on this particular machine. I'm still thinking it's the mainboard chipset that doesn't play well with Puppy.

I have Puppy on 2 almost identical machines, they booted fine and I made hard-puppies of them.

[Béèm]

It's still not clear for me.
Do you have that error message when you boot from the CD in preparation of an install or was the install successful and did you have the issue when booting from that install?

Also unless I missed a point, you haven't specified the type of install you want to do/have done.

In any boot CD/or HDD you can specify on the kernel line a boot option loglevel=7, which gives the maximum of info. Did you do this?