Hardware - Shuttle motherboard
384 megs ram
AMD Athlon 900 cpu
Nvidia Geforce 2/64 megs ram
SoundBlaster Xgamer Live sound card
Adaptec 2930 SCSI card
WinTV tuner card
Linksys network card
Toshiba DVD (scsi)
Plextor CDRW (scsi)
Iomega Zip internal/IDE
This hardware configuration ran very well (small issues - easily resolved)
with versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 of Mandrake
Version 9.0 - installed cleanly (apparently) then refused to bootup, always
hanging at checking module dependencies.
Dennis suggested passing "linux noapic" - did that - apparently worked - was
finally able to get to a desktop. Added "noapic" to /etc/lilo.conf. Ran
/sbin/lilo. Rebooted - worked -next reboot did not work - finally worked by
picking the non-fb option.
I say rebooted. When I say rebooted, I mean manually reaching over and
pressing the reset button or power switch because it will not shutdown or
reboot otherwise. As root or normal user, if I try any combination of:
shutdown -r now
shutdown -h now
halt <ditto>
powerdown <ditto>
It starts to shutdown, gets as far as:
sending all processes the TERM signal <OK>
sending all processes the KILL signal...
Never get an okay there, and thats where it hangs. Forever. Needless to say,
when I manually restart - the OS is not happy.
Please offer suggestions - v8.2 worked great here - didn't have near this much
trouble. I'm using the 3 CD download set, purchased from LinuxCentral. I
don't believe its the disks - same disks installled fautlessly on my sons
computer which is 3 years old (mine is only about a year - go figure!).
Thanks in advance.
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