ClearFoundation

Hi, I am trying to install ClearOS 6 Community 64bit. But during boot it is stuck on "waiting for hardware to initionalize" and do not continue. I don't know what is the issue since I am a noob in ClearOS.

Hardware requirements:-

Core2Duo E6750
Asus Commando
8GB RAM
320 GB Hard disk.

Kindly advice me.

thanks,

Hi Anha,

This issue is reported before. If I'm correct this person just waited till the installation did go further.

Hi anha

I have the same issue, did you get your system to work?
How long do you have to wait?

My system is: - Headless
P4 3GHz
4GB Ram
500GB HDD

Leon

I had the same issue... check your network cards. ClearOS seems to have issues with some Gigabit cards (no driver support)

Hi Bill

It is the same machine i am running ClearOS 5.2 on...
Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller

Leon

My system is as follows...

Dell Precision T7500
8 Core Xeon 3.3GB CPU
24GB RAM
2 160GB 15K SAS drives, running RAID 1 (System)
1 2TB 7.2K SATA drive (Storage)

My original NIC setup was using the internal 1000MB NIC for LAN and a Linksys 1000MB for WAN.

This setup would hang every time I tried to install. Once I replaced the Linksys card with a 3COM 10/100 for the WAN side the install was textbook perfect.

It is always worth trying a single NIC installation if it fails with 2 NIC's. If it succeeds you can then enable the second NIC and so an "lspci -v | grep Eth" to identify the card and driver needed.

@Leon, the RTL8111/8168B card may install using the r8169 driver and work a bit, but you need to download and install the r8168 one for it to work properly. Please post back with the result of "uname -r". Tim has ClearOS 6.2 drivers here. The88E8053 looks like it needs the sk98lin driver. ClearOS 6.2 does not come with it and Tim has not yet compiled any modules for it so you may have to compile your own. If you want to try to disabling one NIC, I'd start with disabling the 88E8053