so i tried to upgrade from a pII 300MHz to a athlon 700MHz.
i switched out my Asus P2B with a Asus K7M with a new athlon
700 and connected all the cards and drives. same exact setup,
just a different mobo and a different cpu. upon boot i get
the good old "LI" prompt.
i thought i'd boot off a floppy and play with lilo, but booting
off my floppy and my debian2.1 cdrom seem to be impossible,
the boot hangs somewhere around the part after the loading
of the "md driver."
so i was kind of stuck, i thought maybe there was a problem with
my drives, since the P2B supported UDMA/33 and this board is
UDMA/66, but the ide boot drive is a 10G, so i'd think it would
be new enough to be compatible. i've tried many trial and error
approaches to BIOS settings...
so i don't know what to do at this point, game over, so i had
to revert back to using the old P2B and 300MHz. system
came up fine, so it's not bad drives.
one strange thing though is that my window manager of
choice (sawmill) doesn't work, when i startx it just hangs,
blackbox works fine...no errors on the console either. another
oddity is that when i run Eterm it takes FOREVER to give me
a command prompt, while xterm is normal. i don't know why
Eterm could be taking so long...
(note that i think this is probably the first reboot since i installed
xf4.0, i don't know how a reboot would matter though...)
i'd really appreciate some help on this, i have two K7M boards
and two 700MHz cpus just sitting here, laughing at me.
i didn't know we were having a meeting tomorrow...are we?
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tom carlile [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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