On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 10:30 pm, et wrote: > On Wednesday 08 January 2003 05:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 Jan 2003 9:39 pm, et wrote: > > > the NOapic option is one of a few switches that can be passed to the > > > kernel durring install or bootup. if this Mother Board has onboard > > > video, that will also cause a freeze in about the same place if the > > > mem=xxx (with xxx being the amount of system memory minus the "shared" > > > video memory so that an 8 meg shared video mem and an 128 meg video > > > stick, I would pass mem=118, with an extra 2 megs thrown in for comfort > > > > But how do you pass these? > > > > Anne > > if we are talking about durring installation, instead of enter, hit f1 > (like when using rescue mode) and (instead of typing "rescue") type MEM=xxx > then hit enter. ( I am doing this from memory, and I have this short term > memory problem,,,, but maybe it's been long enough since i had to do this > that it might be there) maybe it is like at a lilo text prompt typing > "linux MEM=xxx" OR > if we are talking about passing in the lilo.conf file, you would use a > space and add mem-xxx or NOapic to the append line, within the quotes. > remember, only one append line per lilo stanza. > "NOapic" is no silver club member wonder bullett, just one of those things > that the standards have not worked out themselves from all the different > hardware combos possible. and should not be attempted with SMP systems, or > so I am told, I don't think it will let the smoke out but I don't want to > try my own SMP box to find that out.
Thanks et. If we are simply talking about irq control/handling, it shouldn't be a problem, should it? Neither 8.2 nor 9.0 get beyond the faintly lit blank screen that I have seen described somewhere, so I don't think I have much to lose. Anne
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