I have got a machine at home where two IDE drives are involved. The 40 megger I have in there boots fine, the original 425 megger boots OK in there when I had it installed, but the 2.5 gigger does not! Lilo hangs after putting 3 or four characters on the screen. That's why I tried booting with the 40 meg drive and hung the 2.5 gig on /dev/hdc; that process worked fine til I tried using 2.4 kernel. Now I get "interrupt lost" over and over. I may consider repartitioning the 2.5 gig drive and see what happens there. The ide.txt file suggested issues possibly with jumper settings. I messed around with jumper settings for several hours last night and came up with no new answers at all! The sooner I can get away from those jumpers, the much better off I'll be <sigh>. -----Original Message----- From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:davros@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:25 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: a few things Hi, I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked around that issue by now, I believe. However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me! Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should work fine...I know nothing about grub. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | From the pines down to the projects, Email: davros at ycardz.com | Life pushes up through the cracks. Phone: (972) 276-6360 | And it's only going forward, ICQ: 36621210 | And it's never going back.--Small Potatoes _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
