Wow, that's bad, there's always someones machine that just has the wrong
pieces of hardware. I can tell you that on my system (Dual Celeron 533's,
Gigabyte 6bxd MB, Voodoo3 2000, Awe64, 3c590 network, Promise ultra 100 HD
controller) everything was fine here. I never have used grub myself and I
have heard too many people complain about it to try it. Lilo works fine.
On Thursday 02 November 2000 17:01, you wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm a newcomer to Linux Mandrake (I'm a WinNT Server Admin
> at a small college and I am the one who gets to plan future transitions...
> Linux is a definite possibility).
>
> I encountered several installation problems with version 7.2 (download
> ISO's). I could not setup networking in the installation routine (though
> Kudzu found it later : AMD PCnet), nor could I get Lilo or Grub to write
> the MBR so that Linux could boot after installation, nor could I make a
> boot-disk.
>
> This was frustrating, but I said I am a WinNT server admin... I know
> frustrating. The solution to the problem was to install a minimal
> installation of 7.1, then do an expert upgrade to 7.2. In the upgrade
> installation I was allowed to finally edit Grub for loading and can boot
> into 7.2 kernel. Guess what? I start the boot process in the 7.2 standard
> kernel and wham a black screen with no text (only the dead red pixel). So I
> repeat the above (3 hours of installation later) and during installation
> disable every possible startup service in the hopes that it was the
> problem. It appears to be the solution.
>
> I hope this is not indicative of everyone's experience, can I do anything
> further to help squish whatever problems there were (especially if they
> were me).
>
> System:(Laptop)
> PIII 600 SpeedStep (All PowerSaving features were disabled for
> installation) 128M Ram
> 12Gig Toshiba Hard Drive
> Torisan DVD
> Yamaha DX sound system
> and a stupid Winmodem
>
> Jason Ashbaugh
> Network Security Administrator
> Washington Bible College
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