On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 08:44, The Other wrote:My solution was to turn off *all* ROM Shadowing in the BIOS. Windows doesn't mind the ROM Shadowing, but Linux wants to control all of the system's memory. When I turned off the Video ROM Shadowing in the BIOS, all problems went away.
______________________________________________________________________This is the first time I've ever heard of this. I have rom shadowing
enabled religiously and have had it enabled across an entire succession
of mainboards stretching back to the early 1990's. I've never
encountered a problem with rom shadowing and any version of Linux,
including Red Hat, Gentoo, Mandrake, Slackware or any other distro I've
loaded. Moreover, in every system I've installed, I've also set the
bios settings to shadow the system and video bios.
Not saying that you've not seen what youve' seen, however I suspect that
this problem is germane to your particular box or video card.
LX
Greetings LX,
I'm running a circa 1998 system with Mandrake 9.1 (in the process of building LFS {Linux From Scratch} 5.0) on the following hardware:
Asus P2B AGP motherboard with the Intel 440BX chipset and Award BIOS (IIRC, I know it's not a Phoenix BIOS)
Intel Pentium-II MMX 350-MHz cpu
Matrox G100 AGP video card
I've been rock-solid since turning off the ROM Shadowing. Prior to that, 3/4 of a year with erratic errors and when I had to do a reinstall of Mandrake 9.1 because of file system corruption, it would take over 100 attempts to get through the loading software phase of the install, with a chance to bomb on the LILO setup as well. I'm a patient guy, but this was getting ridiculous. It's also a testimony of my resolve to not use Windows on the Internet. :) Also, others on this list may remember my cries for help during 2003.
If there's another problem causing this problem besides ROM Shadowing, I'd love to hear what the alternative solution is. Just in case you're right and I haven't solved my problem.
Thanks, The Other
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