On Friday 17 October 2003 09:45 pm, jdennehy wrote: > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label="linux" > root=/dev/hda5 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount splash=silent mem=256 hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht
> > > I am not very sure about what hardware is in this box but IIRC it is an ECS > motherboard using the SIS 630 chipset (integrated everything), and a Radeon > 7200 pci video card. > > > I am grasping at straws here but...could I have messed up the install by > leaving my /home parititon from mdk9.1 unformatted? > > > P.S the old_linux-non-fb entry in the lilo.conf is from the 1st try install > of 9.2. When it didn't work I tried to do an upgrade to see if I had done > something wrong during post install configuration. > > Thank you for your help. > > Joe. You could try hitting esc at the lilo menu and typing linux noapic and see if that helps. Sis chipsets can have trouble with I/O APIC. If that works, add it (just the noapic, not the linux part) to the append line in lilo.conf and rerun lilo to make the change permanent. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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