Hi Shaun on some of the gigabyt boards there is two bioses, the first one is used to boot normally and the second one is a backup. There is a way to restore your primary bios from the backup but I don't remember it now. Hope fully your board has this dule bios feature. I don't know when gigabyt came out whith it. What's the model number? Pete P.S. What intel chip set is it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:08 AM Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few > things. > it's never the same. > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might > be lucky and get a reboot. > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any > baring on it, > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. > and we cannot change it. > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my > situation any? > On Thu, 27 Dec > 2001, > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > 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
