YESSSSSSS! Yes! Yes, that seems to have been it! I have a sound card
on-board (something called AC'97 if anybody cares) and disabling it made
even the regular boot work!
Luckily I have a SoundBlaster Live! as the "real" sound card, so
disabling the on-board sound doesn't affect me, but I think this could
be a real problem for someone relying on the on-board card for sound
(imagine changing BIOS settings when switching OS'es on multiple OS
computers).
Anyway, thanks a lot everybody - I was just about to give up on
Mandrake, and would've if it weren't for you to help. I was in a real
hurry to make Linux work because I have some web development to do and
didn't have a platform to work on... (yes, I know there's Apache for
Windows as well, but I prefer doing this in Linux).
Thanks again!
Bogdan
Larry Sword wrote:
> Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
>
>> Ah, sorry, maybe I wasn't being explicit: I managed to change
>> lilo.conf and install the new boot (yes, I'm sure, I created new
>> entries instead of editing the old ones). The result of trying to
>> boot with the respective entries (noAPIC nopentium) resulted in the
>> same situation [... - see below].
>>
>> Bogdan
>
>
> What hardware do you have in your K7S5A motherboard?
> 1. Soundcard , have you tried removing one of these to see if you can
> boot system?
> 2. NIC
> 3 etc
>
> Larry
>
>
>>
>>
>> Marco Romeny wrote:
>>
>>> maybe instead of just typing "rescue", try
>>> "rescue devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi nopentium noAPIC"
>>> or some variants of it. seems like nopentium and noAPIC
>>> is some good candidates. personally I'd start with just
>>> "rescue nopentium noAPIC"
>>>
>>> not tried, might be wrong, break everything etc. someone
>>> correct me on this...
>>>
>>> /marco
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 15:20
>>> Subject: Re: [expert] [Fwd: MDK 9.0 crashes at boot]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wow! Thanks for the detailed directions - unfortunately that didn't
>>>> work either... I get exactly the same results as with the regular
>>>> boot (marked *** below)... :-(
>>>>
>>>> Bogdan
>>>>
>>>> E T wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 01:12 am, Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, E T!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, haven't passed any kind of parameters to lilo.conf -- and yes,
>>>>>> please, I do need instructions if you have enough time to provide
>>>>>> them
>>>>>> (an URL to a tutorial should be enough if you know any). I seem
>>>>>> to have
>>>>>> selected lilo with graphical menu at install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> when I say "type" I mean without the quotes
>>>>> boot from the install cd, type f1 when offered "hit enter to
>>>>> install or upgrade, or f1 for other options" type "rescue", hit
>>>>> enter, login as root, type "mount /etc /mnt/etc" hit enter, now
>>>>> the rest depends on what editors you have installed, so you will
>>>>> have to edit /etc/lilo.conf. in each different boot "image"
>>>>> section, there "should be a line that says "append {and some other
>>>>> options}" all append statements must be on only 1 line, and only
>>>>> the first line (I think, might be the last, anyway 2 append
>>>>> statements per section would be wrong) is read, and the options
>>>>> are seperated by a space so append="quiet devfs=mount
>>>>> hdb=ide-scsi" is how one of mine looks. you could try to have
>>>>> append="quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi nopentium noAPIC"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, I can't edit /etc/lilo.conf because I can't boot any kind of
>>>>>> Linux for now!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks in advance for any kind of recommendation!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bogdan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> E T wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Monday 14 October 2002 07:42 pm, Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry for "spamming" you with this message, but I've also sent
>>>>>>>> it to the
>>>>>>>> newbie list and I received no reply.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I just got around to answering the one on the newbie list, do
>>>>>>> you pass
>>>>>>> noAPIC or nopentium to the kernel in the lilo.conf append
>>>>>>> statement? can
>>>>>>> you? need instructions? can you boot with the install cd? press
>>>>>>> f1? type
>>>>>>> rescue? mount the filesystems? edit /etc/lilo.conf?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've been using Linux Mandrake
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> since its 6.0 version, but if I find no solution to this
>>>>>>>> problem I'll
>>>>>>>> most probably migrate to RedHat because that worked... Not that
>>>>>>>> I want
>>>>>>>> to, but Mandrake seems not to be working on my machine, so I
>>>>>>>> seem not to
>>>>>>>> have an alternative...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>>>>> Subject: MDK 9.0 crashes at boot
>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:05:29 +0300
>>>>>>>> From: Bogdan Stancescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello everybody!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU on a K7S5A motherboard with
>>>>>>>> AMIBIOS,
>>>>>>>> if that makes any difference.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I install Mandrake 9.0 ok, but when I reboot and try to boot in
>>>>>>>> Linux I
>>>>>>>> get:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>> Running DevFs daemon: [OK]
>>>>>>>> Unmounting initrd: [OK]
>>>>>>>> Configuting kernel parameters: [OK]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>> And that's it - it freezes there. I get exactly the same when I try
>>>>>>>> booting linux-nonfb, and when I try failsafe I get:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> modprobe: modprobe: Can't find module fb0
>>>>>>>> Unmounting initrd: [OK]
>>>>>>>> Configuting kernel parameters: [OK]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And it freezes again. I thought there may have been a glitch in the
>>>>>>>> installation, so I tried it again - same results. I even get
>>>>>>>> the X test
>>>>>>>> working in the installation, so that shouldn't be it...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm absolutely lost at what I should try next, so I'm open to
>>>>>>>> any kind
>>>>>>>> of suggestions!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I tried looking through the mailing list archives on
>>>>>>>> mandrake.com, but
>>>>>>>> they're only available up to September, so if this has already been
>>>>>>>> answered in October, please direct me to a more recent archive or
>>>>>>>> copy/paste the reply in an e-mail. :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bogdan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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