Maybe:
Your kernel is using modules for the 'old' mobo and cpu.  While booting,
auto-hardware-detect changes the settings for another mobo, but it's not
installed so the modules are not found.

If that's more or less right, you can try to recompile your kernel ?

Steven
(just a wild guess... But I think it makes sense)



On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:07, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> 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
> 
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