On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, 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.
There's a memory checking utility on one of the Mandrake disks. I've seen several cases where bad memory turned out to the culprit. It would boot fine, even run DOS programs fine, but fail whenever Linux tried to access the memory.
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