On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? Greg On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, 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 > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
