Csaba, My biggest reluctance to opening the cover is that I seem to have the reverse Midas touch, so the computer ends up in the computer $hop. What I have decided to do to debug the situation is to first try the latest Suse release to see what it does. Suse is not based on Debian (one of the very few). If it boots without problems then I have a difficult decision to make. I like Debian and the Debian derivatives and don't want to leave it. However, the need for an up to date Linux machine is more important.
If it has similar problems, then it is time to open the case. I will try booting without the hard drive as you suggest. Then I will look at the jumpers to see if it is set in single mode. There is but one hard drive in the computer, so single mode should work. I guess what bugs me is that the BIOS seems ok with the jumper settings, so I don't get why either the kernel of Debian (not sure where the problem is) has such issues. This is especially true since all previous versions of Debian booted with out problem. Though to be completely open, the Debian lice cd based on 5 had video issues that took a while to fix. I hope that I don't run into that problem again, but we will see. Dave, On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:36 -0700, "Csaba Kormendy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > How about temporarily disconnecting your hard drive while testing with > the live DVD? > > Csaba > -- dave boland [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
