I recently picked up an Athlon XP2700+ to replace my Duron 1100. The switch went fine except my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobo apparently doesn't support anything greater than an XP1500+. It is an MSI KT333 ultra and the manual says it can do a 200MHz FSB, etc, which would support the chip but...in any case, this is true, it seems, only with windoze when using a special MSI-supplied application for "overclocking". I downloaded the latest bios upgrade for this mobo thinking/hoping it would add support for XP2000 and higher chips but. After upgrading the bios, Windoze ME still fires up just fine but Linux is hosed. I can boot up in failsafe mode and from there start up graphics and networking just fine as root. If I try to login from failsafe as a user, if fails to start XFree. This isn't the main problem at this point, however. The primary problem is if I try to startup linux via a normal kernel and graphical startup, I get a screen full of error messages having to do with "unable to touch /var/lock/subsys/<whatever> no such file or directory" and I also get an error message about being unable to mount most of my partitions because their /dev/hd* entries do not exist. Ultimately, the bootup fails when the system gets to the point of trying to start the system logger, at which point it just sits for a long time and then the screen goes blank and that's it. Why would I be able to start up just fine, graphics and all, all my partitions, all my /var/lock/... files, etc, from failsafe all the way to graphics (but only for root) but not be able to do the same from a normal bootup? How do I go about fixing this? Since I can get in as root via failsafe I am not yet ready to try reinstalling and feel that the system MUST be salvagable, but where to start? And why would a bios upgrade do this in such an odd manner, affecting only the graphical bootup but leaving the failsafe bootup (to graphics) intact?
praedor __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
