The L99 99 99 99 99 99 might be lilo or what you use as a boot manager Have you try http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if anyone has had this problem to.
On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 4:25 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > I submitted a question to the list earyler today, THANKS for the > helpfull replies folks. However the plot now thickens. > > After many attempts I could still not get the laptop to run more than a > couple of miniuts in 9.0 although earyler in the day it had done ok in > windoze. I finnally gave up and tried to install 8.1 , after I got a bit > better than half way done it had a problem reading reading the CD, after a > couple attempts at cleaning the cd the cd drive refused to open and I > stoped the installation and went to reboot to windoze and was met with new > fun and games. > > I got the same old message as always reading Toshiba corp bla bla bla > Memory initalize 81664 KB followed by > > L99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 , about a half screen of this stuff and then > it refused to proceed any further with the boot process. > > I have never seen a screen like this but my best guess is some bad memory > may have caused the problems earyler with 9.0 and perhaps the installation > of 8.1 > > Does this sound about right to you folks? Do I have a bad stick of > memory? > > Sorry I did not quote any of the old message but I am afraid all that > email is stuck in the old laptop. > > Thanks > Marc
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