I am forwarding this to debian-boot and setting MFT, as it is more appropriate there. -Roberto On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:19:33PM +0100, debian wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a Tyan Thunder K8W board > (http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w_spec.html) > with a single opteron 246 as I remembered starting a dual processor > board with one Pentium pro in dim and distant days being a good way to > allow room for later expansion of power. Board has an nvidia GeoForce > FX 5200 graphics card and 2Gb of RAM and (for now) Samsung TM1000-24 > SP1614N hard disc on the primary ATA channel (drives attached to the > internal SATA controller disconnected for now: one step at a time!) > > The problem is that sarge i386 r0a net-installer image boots up to the > boot prompt but then, whether I use the default or the 2.6 kernel, > hangs after: > "Uncompressing Linux ..., Ok, booting the kernel." > nothing happens at all, the CD continues spinning though. > > I think this could be the graphics card but I doubt it, or it could > be having one processor in a dual processor board, or could it be the > 2Gb of RAM? Anyway, suggestions much appreciated. > -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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