Mike,
Without seeing the message its kinda difficult to guess, but Ill give it a
try... My guess is that its not a kernel issue, but rather a lilo issue.
You may be having an issue with video mode in lilo, edit your /etc/lilo.conf,
and use:
vga = normal
and comment out any other vga lines.
Then run lilo, shutdown, remove the tv tuner, and start it up...
If that doesnt do it, see if you can send us the error message, or atleast
try to remember some of the key words.
All i can really tell you about the LILO prompt getting stuck you can easily
find in the lilo man pages. Your getting stuck at L, which means your bios
is loading the MBR, and the MBR is loading the first stage loader, but is
failing before turning control to the second stage loader (yeah... i know,
your thinking well thats nice, but how do i fix it?).
Jamie
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:43 am, Mr O wrote:
: Here's an interesting one. Not sure if it's new or not. Upon
: removing my TV card from my computer and attempting to reboot,
: Lilo will only end up with 'L' and that takes quite some time to
: get to. I've booted a rescue disc, recompiled my kernel (the
: only thing I'm good at), ran 'lilo', and got a funky message
: about not knowing what video device the system was using.
: Needless to say, once I put the TV card back in the system boots
: fine!? Anyone with a clue as to what to do? Gentoo it is of
: course. I'll keep checking threads.
: Thanks.
:
: Mr O.
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