Hi, I have a PC on loan from work, which I would really, really like to install Linux on. I successfully installed Debian on the last two PC's they gave me, but am having trouble with this one.
The problem comes when I start the rescue disk (1997-05-30) right at the beginning of installation. It starts up fine, loads root.bin, loads linux, uncompresses it and starts to boot the kernel. Some messages fly by and then it simply reboots. The text disappears too fast to get anymore than the last two lines of text which are along the lines of :- Ramdisk <blah> initialized <blah> Loop device driver <blah> installed <blah> This happens every time. I even tried compiling my own kernel and replaced the one on the rescue disk with it. Same result. It's a Tulip Vision Line de 486dx/e (33Mhz - EISA) with 40 Mb of memory, a .5Gb IDE drive and a Colorado 250 Mb Tape Drive (Through the Floppy Drive). And displays something close to the effect of this on booting up :- ++ Copyright 1992, Oak Technology Inc., VGA Bios V1.06 (SWLS) Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS Plus version 1.01.01 Copyright (C) 1985-1990 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved Copyright (C) 1991 Tulip (R) Computers 03/04/92 ++ I checked the BIOS settings as mentioned in install.txt, and other similar stuff, nothing seems suspicious there. Has anyone got any idea why Linux and this PC don't get on? -- James :( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
