weird install problem
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 09:08:01 UTC 2004
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:23:27AM +0100, Tony Grant wrote:
> The install went fine up till the end where it hung on "finishing..."
> (as the install was done in French I don't have the english text). The
> only issue was the video card wasn't recognised so vesa driver was used.
That is correct
> OK so reset and... nothing. No BIOS screen, no hard disk activity. The
> only things showing any life were the two CD-ROM drives which were
> getting power.
>
> Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead.
>
> Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM?
Try unplugging the IDE disks see what it does. Some K6 BIOSes will choke
with large hard disks (>32G), and sometimes it matters whether there is
a partition table present or not .
You hang sounds a bit early for that however
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