On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stout, Wayne wrote:
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I'm still unable to boot into Mandrake 6.1 on my laptop. I've tried some of
> the suggestions that were given to me when I first asked about this a couple
> of weeks ago.
>
> To rehash:
>
> Acer TravelMate 512DX, Celeron 366, 32 meg ram, 4.3 gig drive, dual boot
> with Win98SE. I've tried deleting the extended partitions that were
> initially created with FIPS, recreating them with Disk Druid.
>
> The point I'm at now is as soon as the kernel tries to start apm, it gpf's.
> Here's some of what I get:
at the lilo prompt type 'linux apm=off' and it should bypass that and
finish booting
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> general protection fault:
> CPU:0
> EIP:0010:[<802216c5>]
> EFLAGS: 00010046
> eax: 530e ebx: ecx: 0102 edx:
> esi: 80204220 edi: 530e ebp: 0246 esp: 81febebc
> ds: es: ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=81feb000)
>
> followed by a stack dump and a call trace which, if I tried to type in here
> I'd get all messed up. :)
If we get the whole thing we can debug it.. :)
> I've searched the archives for tips, but haven't been able to find anything
> else.
>
> I've booted with Tom's root boot disk, and tried to follow the tip that John
> suggested, mounting hda2 to /mnt, chroot to the mount point and running
> setup, but chroot gives me a usage error. (usage: chroot directory program
> [arg ...]) I try to run /mnt/usr/sbin/setup, which I locate with the find
> command, it tells me that the command wasn't found.
the 'command' should be relative to the new root, remove the /mnt
> I've hit the proverbial brick wall here. Any additional suggestions would be
> greatly appreciated. And thanks to everyone that has already tried to help.
>
> And as a side note, I have managed to get other distributions installed on
> this machine, and I can run RedHat if I must, but I really prefer Mandrake.
once you have the machine up do a test boot with the kernel-linus (hit tab
at lilo check for a 'linus') without the apm=off and see if it happens
then also please.
> Thanks again,
>
> Wayne
>
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