On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:02:20AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > As Kamaraju suggests, a LiveCD such as Knoppix will go a long way toward > indicating if the hardware is at fault or not. I suspect you do have a > hardware problem, since you're having trouble with both Mandriva and the > Debian installer. And as he suggests, the solution might just be to > start replacing things, which nowadays can be expensive, since you can't > replace a mobo without it being a match for your CPU and RAM, which > means you might need to replace those too. Ouch. But you might can > replace the video card (disabling on-board video if necessary), and a > few other things.
I'm on dialup and like to get small things if I can. Something I've found very helpful to have when working with flaky hardware is a totally different kernel to boot. I have had good luck with the OpenBSD boot floppy (an actual floppy, their current floppy42.fs) or cdrom42.fs (a 2.88 MB file). The BSD dmesg boot messages are _very_ informative and are used in BSD land the way lspci is used on debian-boot. If this boots you'll at least know that the hardware should be fine. If not, perhaps you'll get a different error message that could help to track down the problem. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
