Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-09 Thread gerhard
Am Samstag 09 Oktober 2004 10:23 schrieb gerhard: > > If you can figure out why you got this 'LI' error from lilo (see the > docs), than this could be a useful way to solve your problem. > Hello, I'm sorry, but I confounded the threads. My answer fits to: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debia

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-09 Thread gerhard
Am Samstag 09 Oktober 2004 02:10 schrieb Ian L: > using grub > instead of lilo Hello, this also should be possible without reinstalling the whole system. But I'm not familar with grub, but it has got his own shell and is very flexible. So, if you have a bootfloppy with the bootloader grub you s

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-09 Thread gerhard
Am Samstag 09 Oktober 2004 02:10 schrieb Ian L: > [..] > > [..] > > As for why one kernel boots and the other doesn't, I don't know. I > > suspect it's related to your bootloader and the fact that the > > installed kernel comes from the same source as the partition table, > > but that's a total gu

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-08 Thread Ian L
At 08:07 AM 10/8/2004, you wrote: The point is, did you ever use a Dos / Windows utility to partition the disk, or did you buy it new and partition it with the installer? No, no windows or other non-linux partitioning tool should have been used on this disk. Linux is the only thing thats been on t

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-08 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 07 October 2004 17:09, Ian L wrote: > At 10:43 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: > >On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: [snip] > > > >Hi Ian, > > > >This link may prove useful. > >http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/f10errors.html > > > >"After reading the man page on fdisk fo

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-07 Thread Ian L
At 10:43 AM 10/7/2004, you wrote: On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: > I've been trying to get the 2.6.8 kernel installed. But it keeps failing > to boot. > > nforce2 ide controller at pci slot :00:09.0 > nforce2 chipset revision 162 > nforce2 not 100% native mode, will probe

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-07 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 16:33, Ian Lipsky wrote: > I've been trying to get the 2.6.8 kernel installed. But it keeps failing > to boot. > > nforce2 ide controller at pci slot :00:09.0 > nforce2 chipset revision 162 > nforce2 not 100% native mode, will probe irqs later > nforce2 bios didnt s

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 02:33 pm, Ian Lipsky wrote: > I've been trying to get the 2.6.8 kernel installed. But it keeps > failing to boot. > > nforce2 ide controller at pci slot :00:09.0 > nforce2 chipset revision 162 > nforce2 not 100% native mode, will probe irqs later > nforce2 bios didn

Re: cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-06 Thread Arthur Barlow
Try doing a "make mrproper" to delete the existing .config file. Then do "make config" or "make menuconfig", etc., and build a new .config file. With the exception of the processor type, don't make any changes to the default .config file. Then try to compile it and see what happens. This has w

cant boot with kernel 2.6.8

2004-10-06 Thread Ian Lipsky
I've been trying to get the 2.6.8 kernel installed. But it keeps failing to boot. nforce2 ide controller at pci slot :00:09.0 nforce2 chipset revision 162 nforce2 not 100% native mode, will probe irqs later nforce2 bios didnt set cable bits correctly, enabling workaround /dev/ide/host0/bus0/