5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:58, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In
> my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will
> work...

Hmm strange..
I tried it a few times on an ABit AV8, once on an Epox 8KRDA+ and a few times 
on an Epox nForce2 board (I can't remember exactly which model) and it has 
never worked. They all have AWARD BIOSen (if it matters)

I wonder if it's a problem where a memory area is overwritten because there is 
more info from the BIOS than expected (ie floppy, CDROM, RAID).

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