On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 7:19 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:00, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 9:51 pm, civileme wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 3:05 pm, et wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:29 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > > Yes an earlier kernel (alt1,alt2) is certainly worth trying. > > > > > > You do not need "nopentium" which is a dodge for the K6/K7 to avoid a > > > memory paging error. > > > > So after F1, what exactly should I type to try alt1 etc? My effort > > didn't work (it still loaded alt0). > > > > Anne > > Anne > > If I remember right typing a <tab> at the prompt after doing f1 will > give you the available kernels. There are additional ones available in > the past on disk 2 ... you might also try a text install. It could well > be that the problem is the video card not being able to do Frame Buffer > ( I ran into this recently ) and could explain the blank screen. > > James
Worth a try - thanks, James Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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