Hi! This is Jose M. Santiago, from Barcelona, Spain.
I got the Debian Linux a few weeks ago in CD-ROM, and I'm having a severe problem that prevents me to install it. I start booting from the CD drive, the "boot:" prompt appears, I press ENTER, and the installation begins with the messages: Loading root.bin ....... Loading linux ..... Uncompressing linux ..... Now booting the kernel After that, I get the screen full of messages that I can't read because the screen blanks out immediately, and the system reboots (starting by the memory test). >From the list of messages that fill the screen, I think that the last one is something like "Calibrating the loop". I have noticed that the CD-ROM is accessed just before the reset. In order to solve the problem, I've been doing some tests, unsuccessfull: - Installing from diskette. - Remove expansion cards: sound card and internal modem. - Disable the HDD. - Disabling several switches from the BIOS Setup. Technical Data: - Debian Linux 1.3, kernel 2.0.29 - Computer: - Mother board: Iwill P55XB2 - Processor: Pentium 166 MMX - RAM: 16M SDRAM (DIMM) + 16M EDO RAM (SIMM) - BIOS: Award ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A59II3A) - CD-ROM: Cyberdrive 120D IDE/ATAPI - HDD: Quantum BigFoot 2.5G, with Ontrack Disk Manager installed. - Video: S3 Virge 3D 86C325 (FVGAP-S34.2E PCI VGA) - Important BIOS switches : - Virus protection disabled. - All RAM Shadow disabled. - Advanced Power Management disabled. - 15M-16M memory hole disabled. I can provide any other information you need. I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you very much. Regards. Jose M. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
