On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I'm attempting to install Mandrake on my laptop, and have run into a few
> snags. Let me start off by saying that yes, I have read the Laptop howto.
>
> Here's what I have. Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg, 4.3 gig
> drive, cd, Neomagic video chipset with 2.5 meg, builtin 56k winmodem, ESS
> SOLO-1 sound integrated.
>
> The install procedure goes pretty smoothly, aside from X wanting to only
> work in 640x480 256 color. But when I reboot the system, I get a GPF when it
> tried to load the APM stuff. I remembered someone mentioning that, and
> created a boot disk on my desktop (that doesn't have APM in the kernel) and
> booted from it.
>
Yeah. You need to either boot from a "rescue" disk you made
at install or from a RedHat (or other) "generic" rescue
disk. The disk you made on your desktop machine has
settings specific for your desktop machine. Try getting
either a Tom's Root/Boot disk or a RedHat 6.0 Boot & Rescue
disk combo. Then, once booted from a rescue disk, mount
your laptop's hard drive and chroot to /mnt (or wherever
you've mounted the laptop's hard drive) and type "setup"
and turn OFF APM. Then, type "sync" and then shut down the
system and reboot on the laptop hard drive and that SHOULD
(hopefully) fix it.
John
