On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:49:22 -0500
Tom Moye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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,
>
> --
> Tom Moye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> in Vermont USA
Hi, I found this:
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Solution: Press "ESC" when you see the LILO bootloader screen, and type "linux
nobiospnp". The system will boot correctly, giving you the change to edit
/etc/lilo.conf. Add the "nobiospnp" option to every "append=" line
in lilo.conf, then run /sbin/lilo, and reboot.
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If this doesn't get you a boot prompt I will try to get the prompt myself
but to test this I'll have to reboot :(
-Frans (in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 5 degrees Celcius :) )
Btw, I just saw the post from Dennis: Two ways of doing the same thing?
Though 'my' solution requires being able to boot to at least the 'LILO'
screen from the harddisk.
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