weird install problem

[tony]

I just tried installing Fedora Core 1 from CD-ROM on a K6-2 333 machine.
It has a Kyro 3D card, SCSI adaptor with non bootable CD drive, sound
blaster and network card. As the SCSI CD isn't bootable I had plugged an
IDE drive in to install from.

The install went fine up till the end where it hung on "finishing..."
(as the install was done in French I don't have the english text). The
only issue was the video card wasn't recognised so vesa driver was used.

OK so reset and... nothing. No BIOS screen, no hard disk activity. The
only things showing any life were the two CD-ROM drives which were
getting power.

Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead. 

Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM?

Cheers

Tony Grant
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[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:23:27AM +0100, Tony Grant wrote:
>  The install went fine up till the end where it hung on
> "finishing..."
>  (as the install was done in French I don't have the english text). The
>  only issue was the video card wasn't recognised so vesa driver was used. 
That is correct

>  OK so reset and... nothing. No BIOS screen, no hard disk activity.
> The
>  only things showing any life were the two CD-ROM drives which were
>  getting power.
>  
>  Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead. 
>  
>  Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM? 
Try unplugging the IDE disks see what it does. Some K6 BIOSes will choke
with large hard disks (>32G), and sometimes it matters whether there is 
a partition table present or not .

You hang sounds a bit early for that however

[tony]

Le lun 22/03/2004 à 10:08, Alan Cox a écrit :

>  > Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead. 
>  > 
>  > Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during install" TM?
>  
>  Try unplugging the IDE disks see what it does. Some K6 BIOSes will choke
>  with large hard disks (>32G), and sometimes it matters whether there is 
>  a partition table present or not . 
OK the disk is a 40Gb, the partition table is from an earlier wiped
Redhat 7.2 install and the machine was booting from W98 (game machine
for the kids)

>  You hang sounds a bit early for that however 
Yes it is - with HD unplugged even the boot floppy is not seen... Sounds
like I need to try some guru magic with the MB... Like trashing it and
getting a new MB.

Thanks 

Tony Grant
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[Francois Romieu]

Tony Grant <tony(a)tgds.net&gt; :
[K6-2 333 machine issue with fc1]
>  Power off - power on nothing the machine is dead.  
Saw that.

>  Any clues? Coincidence or "something bad happened during
> install" TM? 
If you lspci looks more or less like the one below, it may not be a
true coincidence:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1541 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M1541 PCI to AGP Controller (rev 04)
00:03.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev c)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Standard Microsystems Corp [SMC] 83C170QF (rev 08)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine] (rev 06)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 30)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c1)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV250 [Radeon 9200 SE] )
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Second)

It works but crashes are sometimes hard to recover and I suspect bad voodoo in
the two pci slots (next to eht eisa ones).

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