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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Moye
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Hex dump at startup
Greetings,
I have a Gateway 200mhz 256 MB RAM, with 2 hard drives. The master ide
drive is with Win 2000. The slave drive has Mandrake 8.1. The CD ROM is
an ide.
Setup ran fine. (several times in fact).
Lilo dual boot seems fine.
I get a GUI lilo screen, and if I pick Windows,
then Win2000 loads just fine.
If I pick Linux or failsafe, it begins to start just fine, uncompresses
OK and starts to boot the kernel. But then I get a hex dump to the
screen, in the format of [<C01073e7>] and this continues indefinitely.
Same with GRUB.
I looked in the archive and someone reported the same issue and was
given the following answer:
"At the boot menu press F1 and at the boot prompt enter:
linux nobiospnp.
After you have successfully booted edit your lilo.conf with the nobiospnp
append and then rerun lilo.
That should take care of your problem"
Please allow me to be dense. What boot menu? At the boot menu that has
Linux, failsafe, Windows? My F1 key does nothing in lilo or grub.
I have also tried the F1 at startup time to get to the system setup and
changed the pnp settings. No joy. I have a feeling that I am missing
something real basic here.
Any suggestions? I suppose that I am paying for the First go install
success that occurred with 7.2 on another machine (IBM) two years ago.
Thanks in advance,
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Tom Moye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in Vermont USA
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Tom, stick the first CD in the drive, boot from that cd and when that first screen pops up, press F1 and then you can type in the "linux nobiospnp" and hit enter. HTH
