One more update: A friend tried to help with the kernal adjust boot. At the boot: prompt near the begining of the CD boot, I was to enter linux noapic. NOgo on that, but discovered I needed to enter bzimage noapic, also tried bzimage "noapic", and bzimage apic=off. All three had same response ending 3 screens of booting with the following 3 lines:
VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) at which point the machine freezes. The friend suggested a path to see the list of boot options and I stupidly exitied xchat before checking and cannot remember enough to guess it again. He sent me a list for debian, that was first one, others were due to comments found by google. For astlinux, the syntax is incorrect. I noticed somthing called acpi, I tried acpi=off, as in debian notes but same error again. How do I find what IRQs are used when logged in ? I know my NIC is 11, I see that reported in ifconfig. It is either an apic conflict withNIC or IRQ conflict. How do I force the NIC to be something else ? There's gotta be a way to get this machine to boot up with astlinux. Rich _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
