Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alain Birtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it starts loading stuff, like a normal

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-21 Thread Dave Blears
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0500, Alain Birtz wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it s

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-21 Thread aphro
99% chance i the kernel on the Cd is not compadible with athlon, you need to make your own boot disk, or, if possible it would be easier to install on a non athlon, upgrade the kernel then move the HD back to the athlon. you need linux 2.2.13 to boot on athlon.(or newer) nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000

Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-21 Thread Alain Birtz
Hi, I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new PC. However I was not capable to make it to the installer. When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and then it starts loading stuff, like a normal boot does. However, when it arrives at the lin