This may or may not answer you correctly *Forgive me if I'm wrong*. The F1 answer I don't understand either.
However I do understand the part about editing lilo.conf. Just find that file on your harddrive, load it into an editor & edit it so it reads: linux=vmlinuz (default):nobiospnp. Alternatively, in the Bios itself, turn OFF PNP if that is an option. It has the same effect IIRC. HTH Femme Tom Moye 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 > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
