John Richard Smith wrote:Interesting, so boot floppy passes
Ian Kelly wrote:
At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote:fair enough.
Ian Kelly wrote:
Hi,
I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when I try to boot from the hard drive. It gets as far as the message "INIT: Loading version 2.83" (just before the interactive mode message would normally appear) and then it dies. Booting failsafe I get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine.
I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it) with 128M of RAM.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
Thanks, Ian Kelly
Could this be a nobiospnp problem, if so add it to the append= line, between the " ", ensuring there is a space between each seperate command.
John
Thanks, but this didn't help. I don't think my bios is the problem because I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine.
(And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.)
Ian
So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not. Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ?
Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ?
John
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The boot disk's syslinux.cfg file reads:
default linux prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 100 label linux kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount mem=128M
This doesn't contain anything extraordinary and doesn't differ significantly from my lilo settings. The kernel in /boot and the one on the floppy also have the same size and md5sum, so I don't think that's the problem. I haven't changed anything else between 7.1 and 9.0. It's starting to look like this problem is going to be very difficult to diagnose, and I'm going to have to either live with the boot disk or just switch to a different distro. But first I'm going to try reinstalling, and maybe I'll try out 9.1rc2.
Ian Kelly
mem=128M to kernel,
do you have this in your Append= line, if not add it and try that.
also it has . initrd=initrd.img I'm wondering whether in fact your boot script is sending the wrong initrd instruct .Take a look at /boot directory and check on what the correct initrd.img file name is?
John
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