No operating system found after install of 1.95.1

[DicE]

Hi,

I'm new to OpenELEC, although I had a working XBMC setup until I decided to move over to OpenELEC.
but that is were it went wrong

I have a self build HTPC with an MSI mainboard based on the the Nvidia MCP73 chipset (an MSI P6NGM-FIH) with an ATI 4600 series graphics card and a Vertex SSD disk.

This has always worked fine for me. Also for the XBMC Eden setup I installed on it not so long ago.
I build a USB stick from the latest generic openELEC build 1.95.1 to give it a spin but I can't even get it to install.

I boot from the USB key.(sometimes get 'cant create /storage/cache .. read only filesystem' or some error during startup) If I'm lucky the installer actually works. sometimes it shows the main menu but pressing enter on option 1 only makes the screen shift 1 line up as if I'm entering a new line.

But say option 1 to install it works then I select my SSD drive and I get the progress monitor of the installation.
- It goes fast to 23% or 28% where it waits a couple of minutes on 'creating file system on /dev/sda2 ....
- then jumps to 50% saying it's putting files in /tmp/installer/part1.

then it usually jumps back to the main menu but a reboot learns that nothing was installed on the disk.

OR

it goes from 28% to 100%, (I see something flashing by that I recognice as 'installing system' because I've also been stranded on that part of the setup before) staying a long time on 'remove /tmp/installer/part1'

After reboot it just sais that no bootable OS is on my SSD disk (although selected the SSD during the installation). I tried several times, with different USB sticks.
Is there anything I'm missing?

Since the installer sais it is beta also, it will not allow the custom install, nor log file access. Only options is the default install with the 2 options, one about advanced partition selection I think, and if I want to enable SSH during install (which I want to). Tried the installer with all possible combination of options and does not seem to make a difference.

Much appreciate some advice. If I can get some logs of the installation that can help let me know where they are.

DicE

[tergo]

Maybe your Vertex is broken? Can you connect the Vertex to a Windows PC and run some diagnostics or FW updates?

[DicE]

Not likely, XBMC installation from USB works fine.
going to try 195.2 and see if that works any better...

DicE

[DicE]

just tried the new beta with the same result.
the USB stick installer is not able to put a working, booting OS on my disk

Can't even be sure if I took the wrong release, because it won't even boot.
the installation does a bunch of things like setting up the file system and it even claims to be setting up linux on the /tmp/installer/part1. But when it returns to the main menu and I press the reboot button, the bios just reports that no OS is installed.

any help on this or amy the only poor soul ever to have seen this?

DicE

[kozzie]

Just noticed the same problem on my setup...

Install the stable release and upgrade from there does work! B)

[DicE]

tried that also and it would not install (generic release)
pressing option 1 does not start the installation. nothing happens and when I finally hit other keys they just get echo'd to the screen on the bottom (DOS mode style where the rest of the screen will just get pushed upwards...)

I don't think OpenELEC is very fond of my HTPC