Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread Kent West
Chris Burkhardt wrote: H.S. wrote: Kent West wrote: I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! Stupid Optiplex 320!) This

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the pci=nomsi parameter (or any other similar parameters); I've been unable to find a way to force

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM, j t [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the pci=nomsi parameter (or any other

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread H.S.
Kent West wrote: Yep, did that. The stanzas are the same as far as the options, etc. There's just something in the .24 kernel that's not in the .18 that causes it to hang. One more thing. Though I am not familiar with LILO, when you boot with the new kernel, is the disk drive detected as

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it so I could update the BIOS to

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread H.S.
Kent West wrote: I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! Stupid Optiplex 320!) This might not matter, but can you verify

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
H.S. wrote: Kent West wrote: I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! Stupid Optiplex 320!) This might not matter, but can

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread H.S.
Chris Burkhardt wrote: Except he's using LILO and not Grub. But Kent might want to make sure everything in /etc/lilo.conf looks right. Congratulations on getting it going at all :) Ah! My bad, I missed that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.