On 9/19/05, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What
does noapic and nolapic do? I tried googling and it appears to be
a flag for the kernel, but I couldn't tell what it meant. Thanks.On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:12, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> I am trying to install 2006 RC2 on an older PC. I goal is to run IceWm
> or another lightweight wm that will allow the PC to become usable again.
> It is an older Gateway with a 500 MHz And K6-2 with 256Megs of Ram - *
> are shared with a Trident CyberBlade on-board video. The monitor is a
> KDS (Wal-Mart cheap) 17 in. I have installed root and one user. The
> system locks after boot. When I say locked, a text based login screen
> appears, no matter what username I put in it never goes to the password
> step. It always goes back to the login. I can boot in fail safe. Running
> drakconf - video I get an error whenever I try the test. I have tried
> various resolution settings and various monitor settings. It was
> suggested on #mandriva that I try knoppix and see if that does better at
> setting up the video and capturing those settings. I thought that I
> should post this to the group while I am at work so that I can have
> something to go with when I get home. Thanks.
When you get the lilo screen to choose linux, failsafe, or whatever, hit F1
to get a text screen. Enter
linux noapic nolapic
If that does it for you, it can be inserted into lilo.conf for future use.
Anne
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