I am trying to install 6.3 on a double CPU (AMD 2800+) system and the
installation just freezes after:
Hit esc for .altboot …
Press the space bar to input boot options or D to disable DMA
message. Even ctrl-alt-del does not work.
I installed 6.1 succesfully to the same machine. Since the next
message should be:
[code:1:90a8c863ba]
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices
[/code:1:90a8c863ba]
I suspect it may be related to the hard disk but have no idea why 6.1
installs OK but 6.3 fails. BIOS sees the hard disk as the primary
master (Western Digital 800JB 80GB) and CD as the secondary master
(Lite On CDRW). Just to test the machine I installed Windows XP and
it was successful too.
Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.
pembeci wrote:
I am trying to install 6.3 on a double CPU (AMD 2800+) system and the
installation just freezes after:
Hit esc for .altboot …
Press the space bar to input boot options or D to disable DMA
message. Even ctrl-alt-del does not work.
I installed 6.1 succesfully to the same machine. Since the next
message should be:
[code:1:90a8c863ba]
Detected EIDE. Scanning for devices
[/code:1:90a8c863ba]
I suspect it may be related to the hard disk but have no idea why 6.1
installs OK but 6.3 fails. BIOS sees the hard disk as the primary
master (Western Digital 800JB 80GB) and CD as the secondary master
(Lite On CDRW). Just to test the machine I installed Windows XP and
it was successful too.
Any help/suggestions will be appreciated.
Have you tried pressing ‘D’ to disable DMA?
If this does not work, press space for boot options and then try loading
with the enumerators disabled.
Regards,
Joe