#include <hallo.h> * Daniel Fabian [Sat, Sep 28 2002, 10:46:47AM]: > I'm trying to install debian on an IPC laptop (you probably won't know IPC, > as it's a small Austrian company assembling lapdogs) after I finally
Chip hardware, potentialy broken BIOS implementations with workarounds in Windows drivers. > downloaded the first 4 iso images (woody 3.0r0). However unfortunatly, I > don't seem to get very far. I boot from the first cd and choose to boot > bf24. It says "loading bf24.bin....", then 2 thirds of the screen become > gray with a dotted line about in the middle. Then everything that was gray > turns blue and that was it. Nothing more is happening. Broken VGA-Bios, typical for cheap Sony/Gericom/IPC/NoName-Notebooks. Read the boot-screens to disable the framebuffer. > Is this a common problem? I don't really know what to do. I also tried to > boot the 2.2 kernel, but I get exactly the same result. Does anyone have any > ideas? There is no 2.2 kernel, there are three, and at least one should work (eg. vanilla without framebuffer). Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- die signaturen sind alle alle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
