On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Haines Brown wrote about, Re: RH install hang:
> Richard,
>
> Turned out that flakey RAM was the problem. Just because it ran ok
> with Windows did not mean it worked ok with Linux install.
Ah, ok, windows is not choosy who its friends are, linux is.
> The machine was an old hand-me-down, and so no manuals, etc. to look
> into jumpering.
They are somethines the best, why, they are the cheapest ;-)
>
> At your suggestion, I discovered that the NumLock key has an
> interesting history with Linux. NumLock was not on, and so not the
> cause of my install problem,
When one is experiancing what they see as a lock-up or freeze-up of the
system, the num=lock is an indication the the kernel is still chuging away,
its normally user-space programs which fail and lock up, so if the num-lock
led works then basicly your machine is still working, it might not do what
you tell it to but its still alive.
> but in checking into the BIOS setting I
> disovered the BIOS was password protected, and no one knows the
> password. So last night I persuaded my boss to use one of the new
> machines she has ordered for the network and load Linux on one of
> them. Why suffer?
BIOS Password protction is normally no problem, if the motherbaord has a
jumper by the battery just extract the jumper and let the cmos drain, it
can take 1 minute on one machine and day on another.
No battery user defined things dissapier including passwd's.
>
> We handle a lot of 'teenagers, and so she decided the old machine
> would be loaded with Windows '95 and given to them to play
> with. However, I'm tempted to leave Linux for them to really have
> fun. But I've not yet persuaded her that Linux is the wave of the
> future ;-) She's listening, though.
Kids thesedays seem to like a challenge, let um choose.
Anyway have fun.
>
> Haines Brown
>
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