Try resetting your PCI/PNP options in the BIOS.
Make sure it reads PNP/OS, etc.
Then try rebooting.
Entering the BIOS works for you, because it permits the machine to start up
without fully initializing the PNP/PCI cards.
This indicates a conflict in the PNP/PCI setup.
-JMS
|-----Original Message-----
|From: wtomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
|Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:43 PM
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: [newbie] Exit BIOS/don't save changes
|
|
|Linux won't start after installation unless:
| Hold "delete" and enter BIOS.
| Exit BIOS and don't save changes.
| This has to be done each time I boot Linux.
|
|I've installed Linux 7.0 several times on two different hard
|drives(different makes and models). When the installation is
|complete and I
|try to load Linux without entering the BIOS first. The machine hangs.
|LILO comes up and then after 5 seconds - 'loading Linux'. Eleven dots
|follow the 'loading Linux' and then the system hangs. The
|keyboard appears
|to be dead.
|
|Mother Board: Zerus AT Pentium TX w/AMD K6 300 MMX P
|Processor: AMD-K6-2/300
|Bios: American Megatrends, AMI BIOS VER. 2.5 (c) 1997
|HDD: FUJ-MPE3064AT IDE 6.4GB 9.5MS DMA66 540
|Cdrom: Standard 40 speed
|Video: PCI Trio 64P(FP) Ver 1.5-07 w/S3 chip T3M 127A M6026133
|Controller is on the mother board, I think it is a DMA 33.
|OS: Linux-Mandrake 7.0 - No other operating system on HDD.
|I do runs Windows on this machine with no problems, but I switch
|to other HDD.
|William Tomlinson
|
