RE: BIOS? Help installing
Not in my case. I run Debian on an AMD K6/2 (also with AWARD BIOS),
and I've never seen this behavior.
-Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Young [SMTP:dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 6:45 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: BIOS? Help installing
>
> Never seen that with any flavor of unix but it happens all the time with
> Windows NT4 or Windows 2000 if you have an AMD K6/2 CPU ..... I am using
> the same CPU with Redhat / Mandrake & Solaris and never had problems
> then
> but the Debian boxes both have Intel Pentium 100 / 133 so don't know if
> Debian acts up with AMD but its a possibility I guess
>
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> BIOS? Help installing
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> I've got a problem istalling slink on a machine.
> I managed to put base there.
> But when I try to install the rest (using the atapi cd-rom) the whole
> machine shuts down suddently. The power goes off suddently.
>
> I've been suspecting two causes:
>
> 1) Is it possible, that the system is somehow using the cd-rom driver
> wrongly? I had a problem with the base as well, if there was a cd inside
> the drive. I couldn't boot the system then. The system was as well
> giving
> a message that it is trying to intall a scsi-driver, which it cannot
> find.
> As far as I know there aren't any scsi cards.
>
> 2) The other possibility is the BIOS.
> It is
> Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
> Plug and Play BIOS Extension v.1.0A
>
> With win95 it has got a property that it is shutting power off
> automatically, when I stop win95.
>
> I cannot give any list of error messages, because the whole system is
> broken after going off.
>
> Anybody had similar problems or knows what to do?
>
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> hv
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