On Saturday 16 October 2004 12:33, Lanman wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 17:17, Lanman wrote: > >>Does anyone have some constructive suggestions other than replacing the > >>hardware? Like I mentioned earlier both have a version of Mandrake > >>installed and have been running for some time on 9.2 or 9.1, so hardware > >>shouldn't be the issue. I've re-burned the CD's for 10.0 and 10.1 and > >>I've run the MD5sum on the finished CD's - which checked out fine. > > > > Have you tried booting from CD2? There was a suggestion that CD1 and CD2 > > had different boot setups, and the CD2 was better suited to older > > hardware. I don't know the truth of this, but..... > > > > Anne > > Yup! Each time I've made any single change, I've tried both CD's 1 & 2, > and I've tried a text version and using the 'noapic nolapic' options > from a text console. Same problem. I could understand it if this was > related to one system, but two systems with different motherboards and > relatively different hardware? This is definitely strange. I've even > tried Mandrake 9.2 the same way as the other versions and I get the same > problems or results. > > Go Figure! > > The strange thing is that one of these systems was working 2 hours ago - > running and working (the ECS-based 650 Duron system), but when we > rebooted it, Lilo couldn't find the kernels in the boot directory. I've > been unable to rescue Lilo since the system fails or freezes before the > rescue system can finish booting and/or launching due to a kernel panic > or freeze. Hmmm onboard video?
shared mem? linux mem=118M for a system with 128 memory installed adn 10 megs as 'shared video memory'? linux nofb, for a video card that does not support frame buffer? -- linux counter #167806
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