I can't even get the thing to come up with 2.2.16 kernel I've had people look at the screen and all I get is funny characters. I get a lilo prompt but fuck all else. after no less than 10 reboots I get it to come up talking. I sometimes get a crc error which suggests that the checksums aren't quite right I've just about run out of ideas here. and another thing, I can never get it to boot from the hard drive only via the installation disk. so for now i"m on windows until I can get it to boot first time every time. ------------------------------------ Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! http://www.eboom.com/free/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run > on that box. > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > my problem is however, > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > just to give a quick background, > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > get linux to come up. > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
