Curiousity makes me ask what you changed in the BIOS... :)
Eric Mings wrote:
>
> I am pleased to say that I seem to have solved the problems I reported.
> I changed some nonobvious settings in bios and was able to get the
> machine to boot from floppy (though I am not sure why the changes I made
> were necessary). I then did an upgrade to Mandrake 6.1 and, lo and
> behold, now my machine loads up Linux at lightning speed (as it should).
> Again I am not sure why the improvement but all seems normal. Now I will
> just wait and hope the freezing problems are gone as well!
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings Ph.D.
