A friend of mine sent out an e-mail about this last night (taking half-assed dictation in his own way) I woul dlike to elaborate and ask again for help...I am desparate. Last thursday I was recompiling my kernel (2.0.29) on a hamm system (pre-freze but this had worked b4) and I got the dreaded SIGNAL 11. I checked out the SIG11 FAQ...and as it mentioned I ran Make again and it went a little farther and died again..as the FAQ says "then it must be a hardware problem". I replaced the motherboard. On the new motherboard I am having still major problems. I have swapped out nearly every part, to no avail Here are the symproms: I can boot MS-DOS and use Loadlin to start the Debian installation I can install with no errors (checking badblocks etc, remaking the partition table etc - I make a 1024 MB root partition, a 128 MB swap partition, and the rest of the 3.2 gig drive is for /home) When I reboot... The BIOS does "its thing" and comes to "lilo" after which I see "loading Linux" and then it pauses for up to 20 seconds...then it gives me "Error 0x20" and stops if I again boot DOS and go into the install... then on the seocnd VC I run "e2fsck -f /dev/hda1" it comes up with major errors and deletes most of the filesystem (I once saw nearly everything gone leaving only the "lost+found" directory) I tried this hard drive in a second computer, it installs linux fine when that drive is moved back to this computer, it exibits the SAME refusal to boot...however I disabled the onboard IDE and put in a ISA IDE controler, and it worked just fine I don't hoeveer consioder this a solution becaus eit is a NEW motherboard which i got Saturday Is it possible that the IDE controller is a buggy one or of a weird chipset that will not work under linux? (installing bo so kernel 2.0.29)
the board is a BioStar 8500 TTD (it is a TX chipset) where can I find this out? should I just return this borad and try to get a new board of a diffetn model and company (I already returned this board once and got it replaced...to no avail) a quick response is apreciated I have over 1000 e-maisl on my ISP...and have been without a home PC for almost a week.... This is really setting back my projects and things if you need any more info please let me know -Steve -- -=Signature has been removed because it made an unfair comparison between NT 4 and Linux =- replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$fortune -o Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]