Hi all, Tonight I went over and upgraded my CPU and Motherboard to the above system..
It now gets 3073.64 Bogomips... (was 2779.72 with a standard Athlon 1.4) Anyway, the upgrade went flawlessly till I went to boot mandrake 7.2 It started, then started framebuffer, then detected the drives, then it stopped at this: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irg 15 it hadn't locked up, because the caps and number lock keys still worked.. it just sat there doing nothing... for ages, I let it go for 30 minutes and nothing changed. that was kernel 2.2.19-5.1mdksecure I could find nothing in the logs to detail the problem but didn't expect to, because at this stage, it isnt' writing anything to the logs. Then I did the 3 finger salute and selected the default 2.2.17-26 kernel... that worked, and it booted up.. So my question is, why does it boot 2.2.17, but not 2.2.19??? I don't want to leave it like this because 2.2.17 was buggy and had security flaws didn't it? (I tried to boot 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure as well, same problem as 5.1,, sat there doing nothing.) I will be upgrading the system to mdk8.1 in a week or so, but I want this thing to be secure until then.. Can anyone make any suggestions? One last observation, is that kudzu and harddrake could not load anythign for the chipset, harddrake showed 4 unknown VIA "other devices" which was to be expected, but the system worked well enough otherwise.. (except for the 2.2.19 kernels.) rgds Frank.
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