sarge r0a hangs on Tyan Thunder K8W
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.
TIA,
Chris
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