On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Mat Soren wrote: > Hi all guys, > > I'm new to SL, after a looong download i finally have the 4 cd images ready :) > > Well the problem is my first attempt to install SL 4.3 did not go the way i > expected, actually it did not go at all. > > After booting up the first cd i have the good prompt, so i press <RET>, and > kernel load................................... (OK) > inird load................... ... then the machine simply perform a reboot :-| > > I tried to remaster the image on other discs, to burn the other boot image i found on cd 4, to pass all boot options that make sense to me (mem, text, > apm/off etc) and to change bios settings (apm, dma) but I'm still not able to do it. > > The pc is an old k6-2/450, 256/ram, voodoo3, new-maxtor80Gb, awe64 but works fine with linux in general (slack/old-redh) so i think it is not a hardware problem. I suspect that is too old. It has to be a "i686" which is a Pentium II. I doubt that a k6 counts. -Connie Sieh > > > Does anyone have suggestions? If someone has any clues as how to solve this and want to help I'd be grateful. > > Thanks, > > Mat Soren >