On Saturday 16 October 2004 09:17 am, Lanman wrote: > I've been seeing some strange activity going when trying to install > Mandrake 10.0 or 10.1CE on a few older systems and I was wondering if > anyone here had seen the same thing? > > Both systems are running AMD CPU's, and had previously had Mandrake 9.2 > on them. When attempting to start an install from 10.0 or 10.1CE, the > systems both boot from the CD, but both of them either freeze before the > first install panel pops up or fail for no apparent reason after > pressing Enter, or manually setting 'linux noapic nolapic' from the 'F1' > boot options console. > > The console screen is replaced by very dark blue screen (as if the > installer couldn't load the first graphics panel where you would select > the keyboard layout. > > In some cases, I've had partial success in getting to the International > screen by adjusting P'n'P or APM options in the BIOS of either system, > but once a keyboard layout is selected, the system shows me that same > dark blue screen. > > I've tried both systems with different AGP cards and I've run full > memtests on both. I've updated the BIOS on both and still no joy. > > One is an Asus board (Slot A - K7 Athlon 650Mhz. First generation > Athlon), while the other is an ECS - K7VMM board (Socket A - 750Mhz. > Duron). > > So far, I've been trying AGP cards and I'm currently thinking of > slapping in a PCI card to see what happens. On the ECS board, a text > mode install shows me the kernel booting, but it freezes at a line which > says; > > 'ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002' > > While the Asus board freezes when it's ; > > 'Calibrating delay loop....' and doesn't even finish the line by > displaying the BOGOMips result. > > Does anyone have some constructive suggestions other than replacing the > hardware? Like I mentioned earlier both have a version of Mandrake > installed and have been running for some time on 9.2 or 9.1, so hardware > shouldn't be the issue. I've re-burned the CD's for 10.0 and 10.1 and > I've run the MD5sum on the finished CD's - which checked out fine. > > TIA I had this problem I don't know if it's a linux or a hardware issue but giving the disk a thorough scrubbing (yes I know full install only)I used the ultimate Boot CDROM to do this then the installation went slick
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