I just did an installation on a SIS740-system earlier today.
I'm not quite sure what makes isolinux (CD bootloader) stop for entering a kernel commandline, but it is some combination of CTRL, ALT, SHIFT and ESCAPE ... big hands help ;-)
and press enter to boot.
This is for the initial bootpart.
Next You've got to make sure the system can boot on it's own after installation.
I'n my case I was so fortunate that the disk could actually be seen.
Thus, I went to /emergency/boot/etc/lilo.conf and put in append="pci=bios,biosirq" above the defined image there.
Then save and exit. To activate the change, run
Code:
lilo -r /emergency/boot
and make sure that it is run OK.
Reboot the system with
Code:
shutdown -r now
and all should be fine.
If the disk cannot be seen by the kernel, it is probably because the controllers cannot be seen due to an uninitialized PCI-bus (as I understand it).
One could probably use a rescuesystem like SuperRescue or the like straighten this matter,
Note:
This method was used with ASL 4 and will probably work for some other SIS chipsets like the 730 and the 735.
