Mark, This is simplistic, but do other cdroms work in that machine? If so, the first thing I would check is for finger smudges or scratches on your cdrom disk. I've had installs stop, and rejection of cd-2 or cd-3 when asked for them. I couldn't figure it out, until I cleaned off the cdrom of small finger smudges. Then all went perfectly. It's amazing how a little smudge can prevent the thing from being read at a certain point, and this seems to abort the installs. Of course, this might not be your problem, but certainly worth a look.
Robert Crawford On Friday 20 December 2002 09:14 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi List, > > I've got a good one. The machine is a Dell Optiplex > GX100/Cel566Mhz/128MB SDRAM - (2) IDE HDD. I've had Mandrake installed > on this machine before, but due to some mother board troubles I had to > have the board replaced. Since placing the new mobo into the machine > though I've not been able to get Mandrake installed. It boots fine from > the CDROM and from a boot disk, but just as it announces it's booting > the kernel from the CDROM to begin the installation is just stops > displaying the kernel that it's booting. > > This really has be perplexed! I've never seen this sort of behavior > before in any machine I've ever installed on. Anyone have any ideas as > to what it might be? > > As far as the BIOS settings go all looks completely normal. I'm REALLY > stumped on this one. > > Thanks, > > Mark
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