On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > Ok, this is certainly unusual behavior. I've had good results with gigabyte > motherboards. > HHave you tried refreshing the bios, and set everything back to factory > defaults? > It seams almost as if it is trying to boot off an off board ide controler > rather than the primary controler. > Have you tried another operating system such as Windows to see if it boots > ok with that? Yes I have and windows 2000 boots with no problems at all. and believe it or not the redhat bootdisk boots ok as well just not a linux kernel on it's native filesystem. dunno why. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shaun Oliver <shauno at goanna.net.au> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:44 AM > Subject: old gigabyte motherboard. > > > > hi guys. > > I have here a pentium 100 that I want to install linux on at some point. > > I've posted on this problem a while ago and some people were wondering > > what model my mother board was. > > it's a ga-586-at revision3 first edition. and as far as I can assertain, > > the bios is a flash 128k > > my problem is, I can't get linux to boot on it at all. > > I have a variety of things happen when I even try. > > I either get a screen full of funny ascii characters, or, I endup with my > > floppy drive constantly spinning or I get a fucked up lilo prompt > > some times after about somewhere between 20-30 attampts, I can get the > > kernel to load. > > I've tryed different floppies and as many boot parameters as I could think > > of at the time but to no avail. > > and according to the hand book I have here the jumpers and all are > > configured correctly. > > btw as an asside, in the bios settings, there's an option which cannot be > > altered and it says "PCI ide mapped to isa." > > anyone have any ideas as to what this is all about? > > thanks in advance. > > > > > > -- > > qShaun 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 > -- qShaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435
