Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alain Birtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it starts loading stuff, like a normal

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-21 Thread Dave Blears
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0500, Alain Birtz wrote: > Hi, > > I recently bought Debian 2.1 and I tried to install it on my brand new > PC. > However I was not capable to make it to the installer. > > When I start from the CD-ROM, I see the boot: prompt, I hit return and > then it s

Re: Booting problem with AMD Athlon

2000-01-21 Thread aphro
99% chance i the kernel on the Cd is not compadible with athlon, you need to make your own boot disk, or, if possible it would be easier to install on a non athlon, upgrade the kernel then move the HD back to the athlon. you need linux 2.2.13 to boot on athlon.(or newer) nate On Fri, 21 Jan 2000