[Fwd: Re: Just installed]

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:52:46PM -0400, Richard Blackburn wrote:

> >That's very strange.  How many hard disks do you have, and what kind?
> 
> Just the one IDE drive... Just cold booted it, and did not get the XP
> screen, but the screen in hosed... rainbow colored squiggly lines...
> 
> Is there a way to stop it from starting the X system and changing the
> video mode and trying that?  the screen reminds me of the screen you get
> when in a video mode not supported...

If you erased the entire disk, and yet still got a screen from XP, something
went wrong somewhere along the way.

X does not start until the very last step of the installation, and if I
recall correctly, you haven't even started the second stage install yet
(only the part where you booted from the CD), so something else is wrong.

-- 
 - mdz