On Tuesday 02 April 2002 08:45 am, you wrote: > Greetings > > I am using an 1.3 Ghz Athlon in an Pcchips M810LR main Board > (http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M810LMR.html) with 128M in Ram, I also have a > 40GBytes Samsung hardrive and a generic CDROM. > > The boot fails at firs stage when its detecting the hardware. > > > I have trayed to pass a couple of kernel parameters a boot time (ide=nodma, > mem=128...) with no luck > > for the record. mandrake 8.1 Install CD booted just fine. > > Is there a way I can overcome (and debug) this? > > Thanks In Advance
Please run md5 sum on the CD and see if you got a bad burn. ALWAYS check to make sure the md5 sum of the burned CD matches the one listed on the ftp you got it from. ;) -Tim
