Re: FC installer and VIA Epia mobos

[Florin Andrei <florin andrei myip org>]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 16:06, Florin Andrei wrote:
> What's up with the FC2 installer? It crashes when attempting install on
> a VIA Epia M6000 mobo, right at the beginning, after hitting enter at
> the first prompt. The bootloader starts loading up the kernel, but then
> something (the kernel? something else?) just bombs out. I don't even get
> to see any kernel message, it's just "sudden death" (spontaneous
> reboot).
> 
> http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_m_spec.jsp?motherboardId=81
> 
> FC3test1 seems to be working fine though, so that's why i don't think
> i'll file a bug report.

Forgot to add - Knoppix 3.4/3.6 and a custom Linux-from-scratch distro
that i made (based on uClibc and kernel-2.6.8.1) are working fine on the
same mobo.

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Florin Andrei

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