On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 08:30:15 -0500 "Dennis Herrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been working on getting 8.1 installed for some time. . . what happens > is that linux starts to load, a screen or two quickly scrolls by and then a > hex dump. Here's the specifics: > > I have a Gateway 300mhz with 2 hard drives . . . The master ide drive (with > XP) is a 3.2 gig Quantam, the slave drive (with Mandrake 8.1) is a 6.3 gig > Western Digital (I think). The CD Rom is an ide. Only two cards in the box, > a DiamondStealth PCI video and a 3 Com 509 ISA ethernet card. 128 meg RAM. > > Lilo dual boot seems fine . . . I get a GUI lilo screen, and if I pick NT, > then XP loads just fine. If I pick Linux or failsafe, it starts just fine . > . . uncompresses OK and starts to boot kernel. Then I get a hex dump to the > screen, in the format of [<C01073e7>] or whatever numbers and this won't > stop. > > It's difficult to actually SEE the messages, the scroll is fast and scroll > lock won't catch it. So, I got out my video camera and TAPED it. It's hard > to read and I can't make out details, but then I get to this: > > PnP: PnP BIOS installation > PnP: PnP Version 1 (something??) > PnP BIOS: PnP ?????: request ???? OK (can't make out numbers) > PnP BIOS: PnP ?????: request ???? OK > PnP BIOS: PnP ?????: request ???? OK > PnP BIOS: PnP ?????: request ???? > General Protection Fault > At the boot menu press F1 and at the boot prompt enter: linux nobiospnp. After you have successfully booted edit your lilo.conf with the nobiospnp append and then rerun lilo. That should take care of your problem Charles
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