Thought I'd take a break from arguing with my A500 rev. 5 mobo and do something easy.
WRONG!!!
So I've got the above motherboard and trying to load Icaros on it.
It has an Intel integrated video along with an 800 MHz Atom processor and 4GB RAM.
When I try to off my Icaros 2.03 DVD, I get to the GRUB menu where I'm supposed to select the video mode.
Only one that shows anything is the vga legacy mode which gets me as far as all the basic stuff loading up and then it hangs. All other video modes show absolutely nothing!
Tried a S3 Virge PCI video board and go into the BIOS and tell it to select the "external" video card. Save, reboot.
ALL video modes load up a different GRUB menu, one without the graphic background, just black and white text.
All modes load up the initial stuff and then hangs.
No matter which I use, either internal video or the external, I can't get to a desktop display. Just the initial stuff after the GRUB menu then black. No action from the DVD, so I know it's not still loading OS. Plus, I let it sit for about half an hour to make sure!
Has anyone successfully installed Icaros on the D510 motherboard? If so, how?
I don't think a Nvidia video board would make a difference, but I'm open if y'all think it help. If so, which one? Mobo only has 1 PCI slot.
Please comments.