Philip Webb wrote:
030914 Greg Meyer wrote:
What does your lilo.conf look like? Remember that board has to boot with 'noapic acpi=off'.
assuming nothing has happened to the HD files, lilo.conf still has the 'noapic acpi=off' item.
nothing should have changed on the HDD, which has remained in the box during the absence of the mobo. with the previous mobo, there was never any problem with Linux: the problems were all with the interaction of mobo/FSB/AGP, which now appear to have been solved (on the face of it).
Can you boot off the cd in rescue mode
no.
or does every attempt to boot result in this error?
yes.
when i got into the machine with the RAMF-118 rescue diskette, i didn't try 'mount /dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom', which i'll try tonight.
Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board, my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives, not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r. I have experienced this limitation directly when trying to connect a zip drive to the hpt controller and it didn't work. The amdmb.com forums first alerted me to this fact and here is a search on the topic:
http://www.amdforums.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1131584&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending that includes a post stating such: http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1969023#post1969023 You do have to have the controller enabled by jumper in order to connect drives to it. Check the manual.
Rolf
i did try to get BIOS to boot from CD before HD, but may have given it the wrong drive (HD1 instead of HD2): the HDD is 'hde' & the CDD is 'hdg'. in any case, it refused to boot from CD & insisted on showing the Lilo prompt screen. again, there's also the 'scd0' thing: might that be relevant?
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