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

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:08:01AM -0700, Ralph Squillace wrote:
>
> > 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.

Anaconda is the component, IIRC, that attempts (among many other
things) to determine which server will run on the graphics hardware
present.

In the case of Powerstorm 3D30 and 4D20, ie TGA2 cards with Cirrus VGA
front end, anaconda often makes mistakes because they look like VGAs.

In every case I've tried, if you force it to do a "text" mode install
on those cards, it will work.

Good luck.

 --Jay++

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