Shawn wrote: > Alright, I'm out of ideas. I cannot get Linux to load on my desktop! I'm sick of Windows, and want my Linux desktop back!!!! > I've tried RH9, Slack9, Mandrake 9.2. All to no avail. I can get it installed with no errors, warnings or messages. Reboot, lilo comes up. Select Linux, and it starts to load, then chokes almost right after the "loading linux" so I can't see what/where it exactly fails. Screen goes blank, HDD spins a little and then nothing. I have to do a hard reset or power it off to reboot. At first I tried dual booting, Windows would come up okay. Then I tried only Slack, and it chokes the same. > > Heres the system: > > MSI 845PE Max Mainboard > P4 2.53 GHz > 1 Gig DDR Ram (don't recall speed) > 40 Gig Maxtor EIDE HDD (did also at one point have an 80GB WD w/ 8MB cache) > GeForce 4 ti4200 (dual output card) > SB Live 5.1 sound card > Linksys 10/100 NIC > > Any ideas? I'm drawing a blank on what else to do. I'm going thru withdrawals, without my fvwm2 and Slack fix I'm being dummified with Windows... > Pull the sound card (and anything else that isn't needed for the install). After things are installed and running you can re-insert the hardware you want. You might want to pull some ram chips if you can. (Note that I haven't had any problems with the hardware you list, but you never know). _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list