boot failure

[Eric Schwarzkopf]

You may need to upgrade your video card. I know from my own experience th=
at my=20
old PowerComputing Power Center 150 with its on board video card only had=
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512kb of memory, so YDL would always lock up on me as well, until I bough=
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used PCI video (4MB) card. Check out ebay I found mine fairly cheap, it t=
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awhile before I got the winning bid, but they are out there.
Good luck
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On Tuesday 20 April 2004 03:00, Thomas Sorensen wrote:
> Hardware:
> Performa 6360
> Sonnet G3 300mhz card
> 136 mb ram
> 15 gig hd (10 gig os 9.2.2, 5 gig free space)
> I have installed 3.0.1 using the old world instructions with no problem=
s,
> got to the finishing stages and chose generic (default) vid and then my
> exact monitor, restarted the system and at boot X as instructed uncheck=
ed
> th e disc image, changed from the boot kernel to the other and put in h=
da 8
> as instructed for the root device. The problem is now when I try to boo=
t
> into linux I get about half way through the first page of boot script a=
nd
> everything locks up, the last commands on the screen are as follows if
> helpful:
> WMU: mapin
> WMU: mapin_ram done
> WMU: setio
> WMU: exit
> setup-arch: enter
> setup-arch: bootmem
> arch: exit
> and at this point it locks up solid with no cursor or anything. I have
> tried to re-install once and got error messages about vgscan failed and
> ended up having to delete the swap and main partions and start all over=
 but
> with the same results. I am no IT guy so I'm trying to provide as much =
info
> as I can, if anything else would be helpful I will try to provide it bu=
t my
> Linux experience is very nominal. Thanks
>
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