Steve,
Try setting you clock in your BIOS back to 1990, same date and time.
See if it boots. If it does, then everything is ok, adjust the time
in your startup script, and have it reset the date to 1990 on exit
everytime. You will get some ... odd ... error messages about a file
with a date modification in the future, but as long as it's not
externally connectable, you shouldn't have too much problem.
Bill Ward
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From: Steve Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 4:18 PM
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Subject: RH5.2 won't boot now
Howdy:
I guess I should have been more zealous about it, but it looks like my
oldest motherboard (running RH5.2 in my ip-masq gateway) is not y2k
compliant. I can boot it up in single-user mode (runlevel 1) or from a
DOS floppy, but it won't boot in runlevel 3. It gets all the way up to
the "starting runlevel 3" part and then dies.
The board is a FuguTech i430FX chipset board, Award BIOS 4.50g, Pentium
100, UMC I/O chip. I tried three different versions of the Award flash
util (5.0, 5.33, 6.25) but it doesn't recognize the flash chip and
dies. I found the MrBIOS flash util 29C010.EXE, but it's not the right
one. Anybody know where I can get the other one? (28F010.EXE). Anybody
know which one is for what chips? I'm pretty damn sure it's a flashable
BIOS, so I'm lost.
Anybody have any other tips for me please?
Thanks in advance, Steve
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