Paul,
I will check into it. I am thinking though that it could be a problem with
grub. I used to boot into TurboLinux (which uses Linux) before this and it
never did this with the same PC.
How could I switch the boot to lilo instead and try that?
Thank you for taking the time to help. It is greatly appreciated.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Newbie Mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Peculiar boot problem with 7.1
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote:
>
> >However I have come across a peculiar intermittent boot problem.
Sometimes
> >when I boot into Linux (I have multiple OSs and use Partition Magic's
Boot
> >Magic to boot into them) all goes smoothly and I get to the graphic login
> >screen with no problems. Other times it gets to "OK decompressing the
> >kernel....." and just freezes right there and I have touse a hard reset
to
> >restart the PC.
>
> First determine if you can find a cause for this. Can you always cleanly
> boot Linux when switching on the pc? Does it only sometimes happen after
> running windoze? Does it only happen after running windoze with a certain
> application? Windoze is know for leaving a mess in memory. Sometimes so
> bad that, indeed, you have to hit your pc with a hard reset to get all
> pointers in memory back in place.
>
> Paul
>
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