Installation problem
Hi!
This is Jose M. Santiago, from Barcelona, Spain.
I got the Debian Linux a few weeks ago in CD-ROM, and I'm having a
severe problem that prevents me to install it.
I start booting from the CD drive, the "boot:" prompt appears, I press
ENTER, and the installation begins with the messages:
Loading root.bin .......
Loading linux .....
Uncompressing linux .....
Now booting the kernel
After that, I get the screen full of messages that I can't read because
the screen blanks out immediately, and the system reboots (starting by
the memory test).
>From the list of messages that fill the screen, I think that the last
one is something like "Calibrating the loop".
I have noticed that the CD-ROM is accessed just before the reset.
In order to solve the problem, I've been doing some tests,
unsuccessfull:
- Installing from diskette.
- Remove expansion cards: sound card and internal modem.
- Disable the HDD.
- Disabling several switches from the BIOS Setup.
Technical Data:
- Debian Linux 1.3, kernel 2.0.29
- Computer:
- Mother board: Iwill P55XB2
- Processor: Pentium 166 MMX
- RAM: 16M SDRAM (DIMM) + 16M EDO RAM (SIMM)
- BIOS: Award ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A59II3A)
- CD-ROM: Cyberdrive 120D IDE/ATAPI
- HDD: Quantum BigFoot 2.5G, with Ontrack Disk Manager installed.
- Video: S3 Virge 3D 86C325 (FVGAP-S34.2E PCI VGA)
- Important BIOS switches :
- Virus protection disabled.
- All RAM Shadow disabled.
- Advanced Power Management disabled.
- 15M-16M memory hole disabled.
I can provide any other information you need.
I would appreciate any help you can give me.
Thank you very much.
Regards.
Jose M.
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