At 11:54 26/10/01 +0100, Ben Thorp wrote: >I am having problems getting installations to work!! It brings up the CD >boot: prompt fine, but then the screen goes blank and the CD spins and >sometimes the harddrive light flashes, but nothing happens. > >[Here's the history:] >Cyrix 300 chip, now with 256Mb RAM, but with 4Mb shared RAM with the SiS >5597/8 onboard video chip :( The problem has only started occuring since I >upgraded the memory, but I think this is due to now having enough RAM to >enter a graphical install. Which would be nice. Have tried booting install >disks from SuSE 6.3, SuSE 7.0, SuSE 7.1 and Mandrake 7.2. None work. Tried >to fool it into thinking I had less memory, in case it was having problems >with the shared memory, so tried booting with a 'linux mem=252M' paramter >line, but that didn't work. SuSE specifically mentions the video card on >the box, so it is supported. Anybody got any ideas?
And what's wrong with text installs? Eh? You'll be saying you don't like 'vi' next. I've got mandrake 7.0 to `graphically install' with 32 Meg so it seems unlikely that you don't have enough memory. I think top of my list of stuff to look at in detail would be how Linux copes with sharing main memory with the video card. HTH Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
