MT 2.9rc7 unable to boot

juibar · Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:54 pm

I installed MT 2.9rc7 on a laptop computer for testing purposes. Although the installation went through smoothly, the system will not boot. It just cycles.

The computer is an IBM TP 600E with a Pentium II processor.

BTW, I had MT 2.8.26 working fine on the same computer before.

Has anybody had the same problem?

juibar

Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:20 pm

What do you mean by cicle ???

Try to reinstall RouterOS, I hope you install not ns version.

juibar · Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:35 pm

By cycle I mean:

1- I turn on the PC
2- The computer does memory scan, loads BIOS, etc
3- The screen displays "Loading system"
4- The screen gets black
5- The computer goes back to step 2

I downloaded the CD image from MT Web site (http://www.mikrotik.com/download_rc.html) and burned it. I already installed it on the computer several times. I only install the system package. What is NS version?

Thanks,
juibar

Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:18 pm

NS RouterOS version for RB500.
Try to reinstall your router.

juibar · Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:34 pm

I reinstalled v2.9rc7 several times and got the same result. I reinstalled v2.8.26 back on the same computer and it booted normally.

There is definitely a problem with my v2.9rc7 install. Is it possible that my CD image is corrupted somehow? Is there a way of checking the integrity of the file I downloaded?

Thank you,
juibar

Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:08 am

Burn another image to CD,
http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.8/#User%20Guides

Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:52 am

it sounds like you have a hardware problem. maybe cpu or memory. try installing somewhere else

juibar · Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:01 am

I did everything over: download, burn and install... same result.

Now it's official: my computer does not support MT v2.9rc7. I'll have to stick to v2.8.26.

juibar