Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

2002-11-09 Thread John Richard Smith 
Anne Wilson wrote:


On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote:
 

Marcia wrote:
   

Dear All,

I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put
into lilo this line  linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and
Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one do this?

Thanks.

Marcia
 

No , I don't think that is right , Marcia, least it was not right for me.
I needed that addition to the append line because of not wanting
the boot to hang on Plug and play detection, hense nobiospnp,
it was something to do with not wanting the os to look at bios settings
in regard to pnp detection.Anyway it had nothing to do with
the via soundchip situation. Though you too may need that same
line for the same reasons as I did. For the record:-

append=devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi nobiospnp

John
   


John,

I have to have bios pnp enabled for win98 boots, and have wondered if that is 
the cause of some of my problems.  If I try this append, do I simply add it 
for the cd-rw and for the cd-dvd (the one that isn't scsi configured for some 
reason)?  I presume that for the second one it would be ...hdx=ide nobiospnp?

Anne


 

The addition of   nobiospnp   is just that nothing to do with the scsi-em
additions, it has to go somewhere in the append line, needn't be at
the end but within the  quote  marks.  I guess the append line
is basically there for the purpose of adding corrections to the boot
process, so other things can go there to, like memory limitations
and such like.

John

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Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

2002-11-09 Thread ET 
On Friday 08 November 2002 03:58 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
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 mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to
  put into lilo this line  linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset
  and Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one do
  this?
 
  Thanks.
 
  Marcia

 I have a VIA chipset and don't have to do that!

not everyone should, only if it helps with random lockups. 
 But if you're going to have to edit your lilo.conf, you will find it in
 the /etc directory - just make a backup copy of it.
 I'm not sure where exactly you're going to put that line, but after you
 have finished editing, and saving the file, you type lilo again to
 write it to the system...then reboot...

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[newbie] lilo nopnpbios

2002-11-08 Thread Marcia 
Dear All,

I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into 
lilo this line  linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. 
Is this true and exactly how and where does one do this?

Thanks.

Marcia


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