On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:48, Bogdan Stancescu wrote:
> 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).
Got into this thread late. But yes. If you have BOTH soundcards
enabled. Linux goes spastic trying to figure out which one to load.
James
>
> 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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