screen goes black..

[Gavin Hemphill]

Wrong!  YDL boots fine off external hard drives.
	G++

Jeremy Steele wrote:
> It does that because ydl cannot boot on external hard drives. As far as 
> I know it has to be in an internal hd.
> 
> On Sunday, May 18, 2003, at 08:12 AM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:
> 
>> Hi, I've been trying to get either YDL 2 or YDL 3 to run on a Power 
>> Center 150
>> (lots of ram, YDL installed on an external scsi drive).
>>
>> The same problem happens either YDL 2 or 3...everything installs 
>> perfectly, but
>> when I boot into Linux, things go black after it is done with the text 
>> part of
>> boot-up.  If I use text login, it goes black after I log in (KDE 
>> continues to
>> load, you can tell because of the sound ditty that plays during the 
>> desktop
>> loading).  If I use graphical login, it goes black when it tries to 
>> load the
>> graphical login screen.
>>
>> Obviously it doesn't like something about the video on the machine, 
>> which has
>> nothing but an Apple "platinum" video card.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  I choose 800 x 600 and thousands of colors during
>> installation, should I have chosen something else?  I have an 
>> Applevision 1710
>> monitor.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RJ Goos
>>
>>
>>
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