I have a AMD K-6 233, and a Biostar motherboard, and everytime I tried to install Debian Linux, my computer reboots. Well, after a bios update, it works perfect, so I really recommend a update, its easy and is certainly not bad to be up to date.
David P <Hi! <Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:53:34 -0600 <From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <Subject: help...system reboots before install can even start <Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii <I've been working to get Debian (and actually redhat too, for testing <purposes) installed on a friend's computer. However, every time he <tries to boot the rescue disk (or any install kernel i.e. using the <boot.bat or even redhat's install) his computer reboots after he sees <a few kernel messages. He has a K6 with one Western Digital ultra DMA <and one Maxtor ultra DMA. I thought that perhaps the Maxtor hard <drive was causing his problem, but he's switched them around in every <possible combination and it hasn't helped. I had read that bios <caching can cause problems like this, so I had him go into his bios <and turn off all the shadowing, but to no avail. <What are other possible causes of this frustrating problem? < <-- < _____ _ <| ____|(_) http://www.iit.edu/~jenseri <| _| | | Page me via ICQ at <| |___ | | http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19022931 <|______/ | or by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] < |__/
