[newbie] video card replacement/system won't boot

2002-05-28 Thread Joe Sotham 

I've been running a dual-boot Mandrake 8.2/Windows system since 8.2 became 
available.  Today, I had to upgrade/replace my old video card because it has 
gone bad (GeForce 2 with an ATI Radeon 8500.) I'm using a stock kernel and 
without the NVIDIA 3GL drivers installed, I do not startx at boot time. 

I can get to lilo and boot in to windows just fine, however, when I try to 
boot in to linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe the system freezes.  I've also 
tried reinstalling from cd#1. 

Any thoughts, any suggestions would be much appreciated. 

The Windows side boots fine and found all the new hardware. 

Joe Sotham
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[newbie] Re: video card replacement/system won't boot

2002-05-28 Thread Joe Sotham 

Charlie writes: 

 May 28, 2002 02:07 pm,Joe Sotham wrote:
 I've been running a dual-boot Mandrake 8.2/Windows system since 8.2 became
 available.  Today, I had to upgrade/replace my old video card because it
 has gone bad (GeForce 2 with an ATI Radeon 8500.) I'm using a stock kernel
 and without the NVIDIA 3GL drivers installed, I do not startx at boot time. 

 I can get to lilo and boot in to windows just fine, however, when I try to
 boot in to linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe the system freezes.  I've also
 tried reinstalling from cd#1. 

 Any thoughts, any suggestions would be much appreciated. 

 The Windows side boots fine and found all the new hardware. 

 Joe Sotham
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 All I know about who/what/when and if regarding Linux driver development for 
 ATI products is from this ATI page: http://www.ati.com/developer/linux.html 
 
 I hope you can find something there that will help you since the links to 
 supported developers pages are there. 
 
 I often 'march to a different beat' myself, so I can understand buying a 
 graphics card from someone other than NVidia, but I don't think I would have 
 bought an ATI (even though they're a Canajun company, eh. ;-)) until the 
 driver projects have had a bit more time to gel.
 -- 
 Charlie
 Edmonton,AB,Canada
 Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org
 A definition of teaching: casting fake pearls before real swine.
   -- Bill Cain, Stand Up Tragedy 
 

Truth is I wasn't even paying attention to what hardware is supported... 

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[newbie] Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init

2001-12-29 Thread Joe Sotham 

This lloks like an upgrade gone horribly wrong... 

I am upgrading a system to an AMD 1700+/ MSI K7266A Pro2 board, 256MB PC2100 
RAM, duel booting Linux 8.1/Windows ME. I'm using the remaining equipment 
from my old system. 

The windows ME side works fine. 

I have freshly installed Mandrake 8.1 three separate times at this point.  
When I try to load linux, linux-nonfb, or failsafe I get the following 
errors. 

PNP: PNP Bios version 1.0, entry at .
general protection fault: 0 

. a bunch of stuff.  

Bad EIP value
Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init 

... and then a dead halt. 


Hlp! 

Joe Sotham 

try to install 

Joe Sotham
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