On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a new system and am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on it. > Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum MB with 1 Gig of RAM, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics > card. > > When I try to boot the installation CD or DVD, I get a hard lock with a > blank screen and Scroll and Caps Lock flashing. I read on the support > board that there are issues with machines with more than 1 gig of RAM and > possibly Nvidia graphics cards, so I specified text install. > > Now I get a kernel panic with a message NULL dereference at 0000000. > Anyone have any ideas how I might be able to solve this problem to get the > system installed.
I have a Dragon Ultra Black that is basically the same board. I found I had to boot the installer with noapic and acpi=off boot parameters to get it to run through. At splash screen, hit F1 to enter additional parameters and try typing linux noapic acpi=off If that does not work, you can try one of the alternate kernels listed. Once installed, I have found this board runs very well. The only thing that does not work is the Highpoint RAID controller, which works fine as a standard IDE controller. -- Greg
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