Help with install

remyforbes777 · 02-12-2007, 07:11 PM

This is the second time this has happened. Once with a red hat 6.2 install and now with a smooth wall install.
I installed smoothwall on a 533 Mhz amd computer with 128 MB ram and when I boot it all I get is 0's and 1's on the screen. This happened before on the same system when I installed Red Hat 6.2. Any clues? When I installed Red Hat there was no LILO or anything, the screen immediately went to 1's and 0's, and same with Smoothwall.

pljvaldez · 02-12-2007, 07:16 PM

In my past history, when I had this problem it was with an AMD processor that basically melted itself. The CPU cooling fan had quit spinning and the thing just melted...

remyforbes777 · 02-12-2007, 07:55 PM

Thanks for the reply and here is something that I left out. I did an net install of Debian and it worked just fine with no problems at all. Any other suggestions?

pljvaldez · 02-12-2007, 08:02 PM

I did find this thread which implies that it might be a problem with LILO not being setup properly. You can read through, but it looks like maybe you have to boot with a rescue disk and then run /sbin/lilo -v -l.

Debian uses grub by default (well since Sarge anyway). So you wouldn't get a LILO error...

Any particular reason for Red Hat 6.2? That's pretty old...

remyforbes777 · 02-13-2007, 12:59 PM

Hey thanks for the help, it actually pointed me in the right direction.
It was basically user error. I had the hard drive configured incorrectly. I didn't have it jumpered properly and it was in the second IDE controller.
The thread gave me insight on what the problem might be.
I was installing red hat 6.2 for a hack fest we were having at a local chapter of the 2600 and it was going to be one of the defense boxes. Thanks for all your help. I appreciate it.