Hi, I am a new Linux user and am installing it for the first time. I have a brand new box I have assembled and it has a Gigabyte GA-8KNXP motherboard. I am installing RH ESLinux v4.

The install seems to have been successful (or so it appears), at the initial install reboot my machine locks up in the PCI device listings at the ACPI Controller and does not proceed past that point, no error message either.

This is what the screen looks like:

PCI Devices Listing...
Bus Dev Fun Vendor Device SVID SSID Class Device Class IRQ
0 29 0 8086 24D2 1458 24D2 0C03 USB 1.1 Host Cntrlr 9
0 29 1 8086 24D4 1458 24D2 0C03 USB 1.1 Host Cntrlr 10
0 29 2 8086 24D7 1458 24D2 0C03 USB 1.1 Host Cntrlr 5
0 29 3 8086 24DE 1458 24D2 0C03 USB 1.1 Host Cntrlr 9
0 29 7 8086 24DD 1458 5006 0C03 USB 2.0 Host Cntrlr 5
0 31 1 8086 24DB 1458 24D2 0101 IDE Cntrlr 14
0 31 2 8086 24DF 1458 24DF 0104 RAID Cntrlr 5
0 31 3 8086 24D3 1458 24D2 0C05 SMBus Cntrlr 11
1 0 0 10DE 00F1 1458 3150 0300 Display Cntrlr 9
2 1 0 8086 1019 1458 E000 0200 Network Cntrlr 5
3 1 0 1317 0985 1317 0574 0200 Network Cntrlr 11
3 10 0 104C 8024 1458 1000 0C00 IEEE 1394 Host Cntrlr 10
3 11 0 1095 3112 1095 6112 0104 RAID Cntrlr 10
3 12 0 1283 8212 1283 0001 0104 RAID Cntrlr 11
ACPI Controller 9


· This is a new system with nothing else installed.
Is this a BIOS setting problem or a Linux bug? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated!

Some boards still have problems with ACPI. Try getting around the problem by passing the acpi=off option to the kernel at boot.


Håkan

Hey, thanks for the input. After some more research it appears that if freezing at this point the system is not seeing the OS. I did some fiddling with BIOS and hardware configs and ultimately got it to work.