Sounds to me like a bad bios or system bus. Greg On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:02:15AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also > get an out of memory error as well. > > > > ------------------------------------ > Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! > http://www.eboom.com/free/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com> > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
