Re: desperately seeking installation
>From my logs:
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 30.00 BogoMIPS
Memory: 39296k/40960k available (504k kernel code, 384k reserved, 776k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
Perhaps something with the memory ?
> I appreciate the support, folks.
>
> The motherboard in question is an EFA P5TX v1.30 with an AMD K6/200.
>
> Through long practice and much patience, I was able to see the word
> "Calibrating" on the display before it reboots, so if there's a stage during
> boot where it calibrates something, it's getting to that point, at least. I
> can't tell if there's anything before or after that, though.
>
> What I've tried so far:
>
> 1) removing all components except for motherboard-mounted ones, and the VGA
> card.
> 2) resetting CMOS values to be very conservative (no caching of anything,
> generous memory timing, very basic IDE settings, etc.)
> 3) writing different images (tecra) to the boot floppy.
> 4) using different boot floppies.
> 5) fiddling with different PCI configurations.
>
> The boot disks I'm using seem to boot fine on my roommate's machine (a K5,
> on an EFA P5TVX motherboard).
>
> I really, REALLY want to install this thing...I'm just beginning to wonder
> if it's possible.
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