Baremetal boot problem

Submitted by John Doe on October 21, 2006 - 6:45pm.

I'm trying to install the bare metal version (build 0.9.5-4051) onto my computer, but it freezes up at the Moka5 splash screen. Any idea what I could do to troubleshoot?

My computer has:
Pentium4 2.8GHz
1GB of RAM
Nvidia 6600GT video card
MSI 6788 (Neo2-V) motherboard with an Intel 865PE chipset
Seagate 250GB SATA disk connected to the controller on the MB
Realtek integrated 10/100 NIC

The hardware runs Windows just fine, so I don't think that this is a hardware problem. Perhaps there is something that Moka doesn't support?

Thanks!

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Hi, Sorry you are having

Submitted by John Whaley on October 25, 2006 - 10:27am.

Hi,

Sorry you are having trouble. Can you try pressing F2 during boot and telling us the last message that is printed? That will help us diagnose where in the bootup process it is hanging.

Thanks,
John

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I can't even get that far.

Submitted by John Doe on October 26, 2006 - 4:53pm.

I can't even get that far. It freezes immediately after the splash screen loads. Pressing F2 has no effect.

Just to make sure that it wasn't the CD, I booted it up on my old Althon system and it works fine.

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Hi John, Sorry you are

Submitted by John Whaley on November 1, 2006 - 9:06am.

Hi John,

Sorry you are having trouble getting it to boot on your machine. We haven't been able to reproduce the problem, but the next Bare Metal release will have updated drivers, which may fix the problem. We don't have a concrete date for it yet, so keep an eye on our blog and/or the forums.

-John

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Splash?

Submitted by RC Mullins on November 9, 2006 - 2:52pm.

I dont even get the splash, caldera starts up, then errors on reading the disk, and goes to a: drive.

I burned the disk's ISO, I wish I could figure this out.

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