that cdr/w could be your culprit. Do you have a vanilla cdrom drive you could
pop in and try booting from? CDR/W drives are treated weird by linux.
emulate SCSI in order to work.
Did you try reseating the RAM and cleaning the pins on the sticks?
Abe
>===== Original Message From Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>what I forgot to mention is that when I built the computer 3 months ago, a
friend
>of my, a linux guru unstalled a copy of Mandrake for me and it was working
fine,
>since then he got rid of it and I installed win2k and win98 on a clean
"run..."
>RAM is PC100, brand new, major brand... no problems with athlons...
>(sigh) so frustrating... the only new thing that has changed since that first
>installation of Mandrake is that I added a CD-RW drive which is now the main
boot
>CD drive...
>
>Abe wrote:
>
>> re-seating the ram is worth a shot but this problem shouldn't have anything
to
>> do with the amount of ram in the system. I've got a machine with 256M that
>> installed 7.1 just fine. My other box has 384M and it also installed just
>> fine.
>>
>> What kind of ram is it? pc-100? pc-133? How new/old is it? I've read
that
>> Athlon systems can be picky about older/generic ram. I haven't had any
>> problems with my generic ram though.
>>
>> Try reseating the ram, try cleaning the connecting pins, make sure the ram
>> modules are installed in order in the slots on the motherboard.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Abe
>>
>> >===== Original Message From Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>> >It sounds like you've got yourself a hardware problem. While I can't be
>> >100% certain what exactly it is. At first glance though I see you have a
>> >HUGE amount of RAM. Just a thought though. Try taking one of those 128MB
>> >chips out and then try the install again and see what happens. I'm not
>> >sure I can explain this craziness, I just have a feeling.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Mark
>> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> >** <_||_> in the making of this |
>> >** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496
>> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> >On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Paul wrote:
>> >
>> >> hey all,
>> >> just burned the CDs... boot with the first one, welcomed by a 'welcome'
>> >> message, hit enter... it's scanning SCSI stuff, CD-ROM, then it's says
it's
>> >> loading second stage RAMDISK, it reaches the end, and the error message
>> >> pops up: error loading RAMDISK... and I get a blinking cursor at the
>> >> bottom... :(
>> >> they say Windoze is frustrating... sigh
>> >>
>> >> my specs:
>> >> Athlon 750 (not Thunderbird)
>> >> Abit KA7
>> >> 256MB RAM
>> >> Win2k(24GB), Win98(2GB) Partitions, 4GB unPartitioned
>> >> PioneerDVD 10x, Creative CD-RW 4x2x24 (install/boot from this one...)
>> >> Elsa - GeForce2
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>> Jesus saves,
>> Allah forgives,
>> Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Jesus saves,
Allah forgives,
Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
