On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: > Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at > the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 > and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and > right after I press the Enter button to start the install, the screen > goes black, and nothing else happens. > > Just to make sure, I installed Fedora Core 2 without a single problem. I > thought I'd try it because it has a 2.6 kernel, and I was concerned that > the kernel was the problem. FC2 installed without a single problem - > Video and Monitor were properly detected by Anaconda, and all my > hardware was detected and set up without any grief at all. > > Any thoughts? Suggestions? I've tested the Ram and it's fine, and I've > checked and rechecked the BIOS which is also set properly. > > Try starting the install kernel with "noapic nolapic" boot parameters. -- /g
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