Re: [newbie] Boot problems

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Kelly 
At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote:
Ian Kelly wrote:

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes up when
I try to boot from the hard drive.  It gets as far as the message INIT:
Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode message would
normally appear) and then it dies.  Booting failsafe I get the same
problem, but my boot disk works fine.
I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at it)
with 128M of RAM.
Any ideas what the problem could be?

Thanks,
Ian Kelly

Could this be anobiospnp   problem, if so add it to the
append=   line,  between the , ensuring there is a space
between each seperate command.
John
Thanks, but this didn't help.  I don't think my bios is the problem because
I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just fine.
(And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with the
problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.)
Ian


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Re: [newbie] Boot problems

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Kelly 
John Richard Smith wrote:
 Ian Kelly wrote:

 At 05:03 AM 3/3/03, you wrote:

 Ian Kelly wrote:

 Hi,

 I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 and my computer freezes
 up when
 I try to boot from the hard drive.  It gets as far as the message
 INIT: Loading version 2.83 (just before the interactive mode
 message would normally appear) and then it dies.  Booting failsafe I
 get the same problem, but my boot disk works fine.

 I have an Athlon 750 (or thereabouts; been a while since I looked at
 it) with 128M of RAM.

 Any ideas what the problem could be?

 Thanks,
 Ian Kelly


 Could this be anobiospnp   problem, if so add it to the
 append=   line,  between the , ensuring there is a space
 between each seperate command.

 John


 Thanks, but this didn't help.  I don't think my bios is the problem
 because
 I used to have Mandrake 7.1 on this computer, and it would boot just
 fine.

 (And no, I don't think the upgrade from 7.1 has anything to do with
 the problem because I did an install, not an upgrade.)

 Ian

 fair enough.

 So the boot floppy works fine but the normal lilo boot does not.
 Odd. Is there anyway you could look into the floppy with a text editor
 to see if it passes anything to the kernel for booting ?

 Did you change anything, maybe a bios setting , a piece of hardware, or
 something between M7.1 and M9.0 ?

 John

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 John Richard Smith
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The boot disk's syslinux.cfg file reads:

default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda5 devfs=mount mem=128M

This doesn't contain anything extraordinary and doesn't differ
significantly from my lilo settings.  The kernel in /boot and the one on
the floppy also have the same size and md5sum, so I don't think that's the
problem.  I haven't changed anything else between 7.1 and 9.0.  It's
starting to look like this problem is going to be very difficult to
diagnose, and I'm going to have to either live with the boot disk or just
switch to a different distro.  But first I'm going to try reinstalling,
and maybe I'll try out 9.1rc2.

Ian Kelly



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Re: [newbie] Please check your reply-to settings

2003-03-03 Thread Ian Kelly 
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:59, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote:
 About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to
 the OP  instead of to the list.  This happens because people have a
 reply-to set in  their mail clients.  This is not necessary if your
 from and reply-to are the  same.  It is very annoying because once I
 realize what happened, I have to go  track down the message in my
 sent, resend it to the listy and then send a  note to the OP
 apologizing and explaingni what happened.

 Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client
 and unset  it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists.

 The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that
 is  different that the one you are sending the message from.

 I always set mine to:  /dev/null

 Seems to work like a charm.

Ahem.

 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

;)

-Ian Kelly



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