On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Christopher Burrows wrote: > i recently got a motherboard, and i am unable to boot linux on it. this is > very frustrating, and i am looking for someone to help me, if at all possible, > diagnose what is going wrong. > here is what happens: i am trying to boot off the slink rescue disk (1.44), > and initially the "welcome screen" appears. i hit enter to boot. then i see > the "loading....." business for the usual amount of time. once this is > through, > the kernel begins to boot and report its status -- but it gets no more than > a screen-length into that process when the machine reboots. i am unable to > tell what the last step is _before_ the machine reboots, because it happens > very very quickly.
I got a motherboard that did this a while back. I did a DejaNews search and discovered that this was fixed, at least in my case by updating the BIOS. I had to boot DOS to do the flash upgrade, but it fixed my problem. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
