Re: [newbie] Boot problems

[John Richard Smith]

Ian Kelly wrote:

At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote:

Ian Kelly wrote:

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes 
up when
I try to boot from the hard drive.  It gets as far as the message "INIT:
Loading version 2.83" (just before the interactive mode message would
normally appear) and then it dies.  Booting failsafe I get the same
problem, but my boot disk works fine.

I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it)
with 128M of RAM.
Any ideas what the problem could be?

Thanks,
Ian Kelly

Could this be a    nobiospnp   problem, if so add it to the
append=   line,  between the "        ", ensuring there is a space
between each seperate command.
John


Thanks, but this didn't help.  I don't think my bios is the problem 
because
I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just 
fine.

(And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the
problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.)
Ian

fair enough.

So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not.
Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor
to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ?
Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware,
or something between M7.1 and M9.0 ?
John

--
John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 



Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com