Chris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've finally had time to experiment with the hardware. I borrowed and tried a
> vanilla Pentium 166 (no MMX) - still hangs. It seems to be the Adaptec 2940UW
> card that breaks the 9.0 (released) installer. With that card removed (I had
> to borrow an IDE CD-ROM) the 9.0 installation process completed. As I've
> mentioned, 7.2SNF was installed with the 2940 & SCSI CD-ROM without trouble,
> just as I have also had Win2k installed previously. Note: I've not yet tried
> to install MDK 8.2, I will try that tonight.
Chris, my pentium mmx @ 200 mhz has no problems with 8.2, but I can't
get it to run 9
and this is with an ide cdrom, not a cdrw.
always hangs on second stage.
nice to know you got it working, maybe I'll switch cdroms around and try
it again.
>
> I also tried to move the 2940 to another PCI slot, restored/changed BIOS
> values etc, but no difference - as soon as the 2940 card is inserted, the 9.0
> installer hangs - even while trying to install from the IDE CD-ROM.
>
> /Chris
>
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 17:13, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
>>"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'.
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