what about lilo? or a boot disk that automatically boots gentoo.. and when its not in, windows boots...
--mat On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:34, Shannon Roddy wrote: > If any of you are considering building a new system to run Gentoo on > like I just did, avoid the nForce chipset. This is a real bummer since > the nForce (at least a few months ago) out performed the other chipsets. > it looks like I am not the only person having problems with the chipset > after browsing the Gentoo forums. Problem is that I need to run both > windows and linux on this box and the bios settings that work for Gentoo > will not allow me to have keyboard support in grub. So, there goes the > joy of having a multiboot machine. the problems are with the USB, > audio, and net support for the nForce chipset. > > Oh well... I am going to try and rebuild gentoo with some other options > this coming weekend after learning a few things last night in the wee > hours of the morning. I really like the idea of running Gentoo but it > sure has been a painful process trying to get a working system. But... > it is like anything worth while, it just takes some effort. > > Shannon > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20031006/5f795056/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 6 17:24:23 2003 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shannon Roddy) Date: Mon Oct 6 16:24:20 2003 Subject: [brlug-general] Gentoo problems -> Abit NF7 nForce chipset In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mat Branyon wrote: >what about lilo? or a boot disk that automatically boots gentoo.. and >when its not in, windows boots... > > Does Lilo support USB keyboards? The problem is that if I turn on BIOS handling of the USB keyboard and mouse, Gentoo locks up during the boot. If I cahnge the BIOS to give the USB keyboard and mouse support to the OS, then grub does not see the keyboard. ps/2 keyboard is not an option since I am using a USB KVM. I guess I could always use one of those USB to ps/2 adapters. That is not a clean workaround either.... but might be better than the alternatives. hmmm And boot disks are just a pain in the ***. I would resort to installing powerquest's boot magic and see if it would work before that... Of course I guess I could install grub to /dev/hda2 (my /boot partition) and let boot magic or (cringe) the windows boot stuff handle loading up grub. Thanks, Shannon >--mat > >On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:34, Shannon Roddy wrote: > > >>If any of you are considering building a new system to run Gentoo on >>like I just did, avoid the nForce chipset. This is a real bummer since >>the nForce (at least a few months ago) out performed the other chipsets. >> it looks like I am not the only person having problems with the chipset >>after browsing the Gentoo forums. Problem is that I need to run both >>windows and linux on this box and the bios settings that work for Gentoo >>will not allow me to have keyboard support in grub. So, there goes the >>joy of having a multiboot machine. the problems are with the USB, >>audio, and net support for the nForce chipset. >> >>Oh well... I am going to try and rebuild gentoo with some other options >>this coming weekend after learning a few things last night in the wee >>hours of the morning. I really like the idea of running Gentoo but it >>sure has been a painful process trying to get a working system. But... >>it is like anything worth while, it just takes some effort. >> >>Shannon >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
