On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: > > > Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with > > BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power > > management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are > > compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine > > completely before booting linux it normally works. I think that I just > > forgot again to stop the machine completely (just rebooted win and hit F8 > > while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same > > hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working > > with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop > > the os.) > > I wouldn't put it past Win95 to try and use APM even though you have it > turned off in the BIOS. One thing that might be worth a try is going into > Control Panel, double click on "Power" and un-check the box next to "Allow > Windows to manage power use on this computer." I'm not sure if that would > help or not, but I don't know what it could hurt. >
Hi! This was probably the trick! It was very good advice. Thanks! I didn't really know that there was that kind of box available... I used win95 quite short time at home, because I installed quite soon linux on it (after I bought that kind of machine, which could run win95). This machine (, which is at my working place) has been installed by our computer-wizard. And he is at holidays. Probably I'll manage to install the whole slink now a lot easier... - hv