weird install problem

[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