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Install hangs...
After the initial setup failed, I modified the EISA setup to include an I/O Base Address at D0000. Originally, the EISA configuration file had Memory Mapping disabled in favor of using an DMA Channel only. It is now configured with BOTH; a Base Address of D0000 and DMA Channel 1. Still the system hangs at boot-time

Initial setup boot hangs....
After the initial setup has completed (copying NT files), I do the required restart but after the BIOS loads, the screen hangs and I just have a blinking cursor. The same thing happens even after I performed a FDISK (which shows my HDD) and FORMAT. I am mainly trying to get a Norton Ghost image loaded in the first

Windows hangs upon boot
Really, it's not to hard, once you have all your ducks in a row ;-) Good luck, John news-server wrote: Having LOTS of problems w/ VA-503+ initial setup. The boot-up only gets as far as "press del to enter setup", then there's a beep, and I'm stuck there. I've tried every combination of clock/freq on page 18 and

x86 updates
Every time the computer does the initial boot after loading the operating system it hangs at the blue screen where it states the build number of processors and memory installed. I get no error messages no activity lights it just hangs there. Any advice on this situation would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

boot device not found
W2K should boot up OK and everything should be hunky dory from the storage point of view. (Aside: It is strange that during the initial setup, the hardware detection phase hangs with a Promise installed yet when you add new hardware and hardware wizard runs a hardware search on the system it works OK). 10.

comp.unix.sco Technical FAQ (3/3)
What's your hardware setup? dmesg ; smartd ; dmesg yields no new entries in dmesg. It seems on disk accesses are dead. it still routes packets fine. ..... Feb 22 00:09:18 tippex PCI: Firmware left 0000:00:0b.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling Feb 22 00:09:18 tippex Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 Feb 22

Bug#468053: Package: installation-reports
What's different about the initial setup? Thanks, -troy I booted from SCSI for the longest time, then lately I bought a ten gig disk and set it on the primary IDE channel and set things to boot from that instead, all worked fine. I use an Adaptec 2940. There are some rules with this card and you probably want to

DNS problem with router...
... initial setup, Windows 2000 setup asks me to produce a file called NT5INF.CAT. I found it in the \i386 folder, but it's NT5INF.CA_. How do I fix this problem because I would really like to get it up and running and it just hangs at that spot every time. By the way, I have a dual boot system with Win98 running

Boot Hangs after Installation of NT 4
The third possible cause can be hardware conflict of your soundcard with any core hardware leading to computer hang after start of soundcard driver If you use this procedure without ERD, files from repair folder will be used and if they are not actualised than they are from initial setup time and than they are

Networking support as guest OS under QEMU
Partition magic also has a boot menu. Bill Thanks Bill but maybe I was a little vague with my question. ( OK, very vague) Here is my situation. Win98 is of course on C. I tried to install NT on drive D. The installation goes through the initial setup and disk making and when I restart the computer it hangs .

Does WinNT 5.0 coexist with NT 4.0/Win95
(found this one out the hard way) With the Promise drivers installed in both operating systems, I powered down, re-configured the boot sequence to... First boot device - floppy Second boot You have to copy some files to a floppy and hit F6 during the initial setup screen, then follow some on screen directions.

lockup at boot with kernel 2.6.14...
This rewrites the Master Boot Record, that usually is the cause for this hang with a blinking cursor during setup. Best regards Bjorn -- Bjorn After the initial setup has completed (copying NT files), I do the required restart but after the BIOS loads, the screen hangs and I just have a blinking cursor.

OS development: entering pmode problems
... gateway2000 dbec...@aol.com (DBecnel) wrote: I just bought a GW P5-100 and had a few problems getting Windows 95 to boot after the initial setup. When I install the STB Trio64 V+ driver from disk, as the manual says to do, "with STB" the system hangs at boot, the driver "without STB" the system boots but

Q: Problems with message "possible virus continue Y/N?"
Changed my BIOS to boot off CDROM. Didn't work for some reason. Funny since I have several other bootable CD's and they all work? SuSE doesn't install X during initial setup? Tuesday- Ran XF86Setup and within a few minutes I had X-Windows up and running which was a pleasant surprise considering all the messages

initial setup of a new hard disk
Such complexities make the total number of users of Linux a little more difficult, as does the ability of many boxes to dual-boot -- is an OS in use when the other (A Debian Jr. package is available during initial setup for just such a purpose.) Of course, "use" in this context is a small subset of all of the

Boot Hangs after Installation of NT 4
An 'incorrect' pirq line will cause the booting process to hang, or a device -won't function properly (if it's inserted as eg. a module). ...... extern unsigned int BIOS_revision; -extern unsigned int mca_pentium_flag; /* Boot loader type from the setup header */ extern int bootloader_type; -- To unsubscribe from

Can't get 256 colors w STB
During calibration we actually call + * this function twice on the boot CPU, once with a bogus timeout + * value, second time for real. ..... + * An initial setup of the virtual wire mode. */ +void __init init_bsp_APIC(void) +{ + unsigned long value; -static struct sysdev_class lapic_sysclass

Installation troubles
obnetadmin obnetad...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows server networking Meinolf- Secondary DNS\DC server DCDIAG followed by NETDIAG: Domain Controller Diagnosis Performing initial setup: Done gathering initial info. Doing initial required tests Testing server: Admin-HS-Grade9\ADMINROOTDC02

boot problem with Win98SE / system registry
There is no way to screw up the initial setup, because the only way to do the initial setup is to load a disk image from CD. Why is it always necessary to blame the user or other third To make doubly sure, boot in safe mode, then check the drivers installed - you might be surprised at the mess someone's made.

install problems
Then I experienced this weird situation: the system boots, loads the ramdisk, does its initial setup, mounts the root filesystem, switches root... all ok until it gets to starting udev. Then udev's hotplug kicks in and starts loading modules and... in an erratic, unpredictable way, it hangs while loading the usb