Re: boot failure with RH 7.1 on AS 1200 -- anaconda?

["Ralph Squillace" <ralphs protoglyph com>]

So, 7.0 has installed absolutely fine. It can't see the PowerStorm d20t or
whatever card at all -- no matter what I do. But I'm in at the console
file, and I've just put in a Matrox 2MB so we'll see whether that can be
picked up.


>> have you tried running it in text mode yet? it may be something where
>> it isn't handling the graphics card correctly.
>
> No, but anaconda doesn't seem to have much to do with the graphics
> system, although python could be blowing on some probe script. That
> would make some sense, because net-, open-, and freeBSD all blow up
> early on with
> documented problems seeing the powerstorm card. Perhaps that card is
> provoking an odd failure here, too.
>
> I'm going to try 7.0 first, and if that doesn't work, then I'm going to
> swap out the card, and THEN I'm going to drink a bit. That usually
> helps.
>
> Ralph
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