Hi, I'm very excited to replace my Mandrake linux installation with Debian 3.0. I bought a full 7 CD set and just tried to install the system "fresh". Problem is, almost immediately after entering a boot loader option at the boot prompt, the text of my display gets completely broken up and unreadable. It looks like somebody swiped a knife horizontally several times through each line of pixels, shifting some, wiping out others. Text characters are no longer discernable. So when Debian opens the text-based menu system I can't even read the text that, I suppose, is asking me to "Choose a Language". This never happened under SuSE or Mandrake (the other two intalls I have previously tried). Bootloader options I have previously been forced to use to successfully install linux from CD were mem=nopentium and ide=nodma, but neither helped with Debian.
I've tried looking at the LILO boot options HOWTO to find something suitable that might be responsible, but I didn't see anything helpful. I also checked over my BIOS settings as recommended in the online Install documentation. Based on that, I turned off RAM Shadowing, but otherwise don't know what to do. I must admit that I still don't understand half of the BIOS settings even after looking over the scant documentation that shipped with my motherboard and also online. If you have insights, I'd sincerely appreciate it. FYI: My system is kit-built from the following parts.... * Soyo K7ADA motherboard (on-board sound) * AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz CPU * 256 MB DDR SDRAM * nVidia GeForce 3 64 MB AGP 4x video card * Maxtor 40GB IDE hard drive * LG CD-RW drive Thanks in advance for your help. --Damon Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
