Hi again,
No luck with any of the suggestions. I also tried this with the released
9.0 Dolphin. When I boot with the floppy cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 image it
almost immediately says "Boot failed" after the "SYSLINUX ..." text.
When booting from the CD with
boot: linux noauto
it loads the image and hangs again after it wrote "Ready.".
I should correct the hanging behavior I described when I boot from the
9.0 CD: The screen clears with just a blinking cursor when the initial
progress bar has finished - not even Ctrl-Alt-Del works after this.
The Pentium 200 MMX sits on an Intel TC430HX motherboard (no USB) and I
have had Windows 2000 Adv Server installed and now SNF7.2 recently
installed and still running on this PC with this hardware configuration
(96 MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, Pioneer SCSI CD, Intel PCI network card,
Netgear PCI network card, Matrox Mystique G200, Quantum IDE harddisk).
Is this a i586 issue or a hardware/motherboard issue? I have no other
plain Pentium (i586) PC where I can try the 9.0 on. Has anyone else
succeeded to install the 9.0 on an "old Pentium"?
/Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 17:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] rc3 install hangs on a P200 MMX
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried to install rc3 on a Pentium 200 MMX but the PC hangs
> when it comes to the second stage (the installer had installed
> the 2940 driver and the progress bar for loading the 2nd stage
> had completed) - the screen went blank and the PC & keyboard is
> dead. I've tried different kernels via expert install but the PC
> hangs then too (says "loading..." and then prompts "Ready." but
> the PC is totally dead).
You may try adding the boot options "noauto" so that it
workarounds a possible USB driver problem.
You may also try `images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5'.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
