At 2004-06-10T214000+1200, G Chinnery wrote:
> Ok sorry not very clear there was I.

> isapnp scan comes first and with no isapnp the scan is disabled.
> But the next 2 lines are still the same.

> PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fdca0
> PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:6538, dseg at f0000

ACK.  The 'pnpbios' parameter won't exist in the kernel you're trying to
use--looks like it was introduced early in the 2.5 series of kernels.

If you have the resources, you could try rebuilding the kernel for the
installer and removing the PNP BIOS support.  This is probably more
trouble than it's worth.  This should be as "simple" as installing the
kernel-source package, dropping the existing kernel configuration file
(check for /boot/*config*) into the root of the source as .config,
running 'make menuconfig', disabling the PNP BIOS driver, then
rebuilding the kernel and modules.

Try Nick's suggestion.  Try Robert's suggestion, if you don't have a
good reason for running such an old release of MDK.  MDK10 uses the 2.6
series kernel, and the PNP BIOS driver has had quite a bit of work done
on it in 2.6.  In fact, I'm somewhat surprised it was enabled in a 2.4
kernel--the old driver is known to cause problems on quite a few
machines.

Alternatively, work through the Plug'n'Play HOWTO[0], and see if that
gets you anywhere.

> I used the rescue disk to get into the box. Did a chroot /mnt to get
> access. Edited the etc/lilo.conf file then ran lilo to activate it.
> In my default boot I added both lines to "append=" line.

[0] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

Cheers,
-mjg
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