[GLLUG] RH and Mandrake install problems

[Phillip Hofmeister]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 at 11:55:06PM -0400, Thomas Alan Hearn wrote:
> Fellow Gllugers,
>  I'm having some problems installing RH FC2 as well as Mandrake 10, as soon 
> as I boot from the CD and I get to the intro screen (mandrake intro or 
> redhat intro), I hit enter to run through the install and my computer 
> simply reboots, no error messages, beeps, sounds, or anything, and goes 
> right back through the same process.  BIOS is set properly for everything 
> as far as I can tell, any ideas? 

Just a shot off the deep-end:

The installer could find no VGA Driver or the VGA Driver it decided to
use caused a memory exception and caused your system to reboot.  You
could try a Debian install, it is plain-text/n-curses only....

HTH

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