John Richard Smith wrote:
> 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]
The boot disk's syslinux.cfg file reads:
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount mem=128M
This doesn't contain anything extraordinary and doesn't differ
significantly from my lilo settings. The kernel in /boot and the one on
the floppy also have the same size and md5sum, so I don't think that's the
problem. I haven't changed anything else between 7.1 and 9.0. It's
starting to look like this problem is going to be very difficult to
diagnose, and I'm going to have to either live with the boot disk or just
switch to a different distro. But first I'm going to try reinstalling,
and maybe I'll try out 9.1rc2.
Ian Kelly
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