On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:54, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > > I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because > > there is more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID). > > Sounds like a promising possibility (good pun too) - as removing the
:) > RAID card (in my case a Promise TX2000) certainly makes it go away. I find even disconnecting the drives so no RAID is detected works - ie it's not the presence of the card per se that is a problem. > Some other observations: > > 5.0 and 5.1 install CDs boot fine for me (have not tried 5.2), it is > only 5.3 and 5.4 (also today 6.0 CURRENT) that crash (reg dump ) or > reboot immediately. Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only ISOs) and see how it goes. > That fact that it *sometimes* works is interesting - I am curious to see > if you can reproduce this (say try 10 - 15 times). OK, well I'll try it a few times and see :) Thanks for your input. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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