Joseph, Thanks for the reply. Maybe that's what I did wrong. I had been checking the lists and I had read that you need to make sure the bios is updated. I did that before I even started. The fstab had a funky entry about /dev/root / ext2 for booting. I changed this to /dev/hds2 (I think) and reiserfs just as it showed in fdisk -p. I'm totally lost. I've also had a friend helping me who actually has an upgraded model of mine up and running happily along. I'm going to continue to read the motherboard manual, etc. I'm real close to swapping out the drive and just dropping in an IDE drive. I haven't had a problem with any of those. I appreciate all of the suggestions. If you have any more, please send them my way. Regards, Frank Joseph Loo wrote:
Make sure you have the latest bios updates. Unitl I got mind updated, I could not boot from the SATA properly. I got it to load but not boot.
Frank L. Parks wrote:
In answers to the questions asked:
1. No raid (should I?) 2. I found antivirus in one spot - DISABLED 3. PnP OS - Off
Still no luck.
Thanks and please keep trying. Because this is SATA drive, should I be "preloading" any modules? It seems to be trying. From checking out some of the other emails, it would appear that GRUB is not installed correctly.
Thanks,
Frank
Cristian Rodriguez wrote:
2005/7/15, Frank L. Parks
: Good Evening:
I'm having trouble installing 9.3 on an AMD64 system.
I'm trying to complete a basic installation. It goes through the first portion of it fine. The trouble occurs when it attempts to reboot to finish the install.
My screen comes up with GRUB Loading stage1.5. - then everything freezes.
The motherboard is a DFI K8M800-MLVF with 512MB RAM and an AMD64 3000+. The disk drive is a SATA drive.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Frank
Disable "BIOS antivirus protection"(or similar) make you sure "PnP OS"(or similar) is Off