Installation Errors

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 February 2005 19:41, Claus Hetzer wrote:
>Aloha-
>
>Well, mixed results.  Switching from the graphical install to the
> text install worked...sort of.  I was able to complete the
> installation, start Linux, log in as root, add a new user, etc. 
> However, after a reboot, the display kept going black, and I would
> get messages such as "the display has reset 6 times in the last 90
> seconds" (I paraphrase). No problem, I thought, I had installed
> Gnome the first time, so I'll rerun and just install XWindows.  Now
> I have tried that twice more and am getting the same errors I was
> getting before.  I also tried the "linux text ide-cd=nodma" idea,
> with no difference.  I am wondering if there really is a hardware
> problem somewhere, although why it would be failing at such
> different points in the installation process is beyond me; I've had
> it fail after only 10 packages installed, or as far in as the
> second disc.
>
>Thanks
>Claus

This is beginning to have that flavor Claus.  There should be a copy 
of memtest86 on the boot disk, and maybe a 36 hour run of that might 
be in order, just for grins.

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