* pentium 100 woes.
@ Shaun Oliver
` Steve Holmes
` Gregory Nowak
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
hi guys,
I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box.
my problem is however,
I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time.
would anyone have any idea as to why this is?
just to give a quick background,
I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem
mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition.
my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which
is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions.
and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition.
my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my
machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that?
I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I
get linux to come up.
thanks in advance for any help
--
Shaun Oliver
Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Roger Price
Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread* Re: pentium 100 woes. pentium 100 woes Shaun Oliver @ ` Steve Holmes ` Shaun Oliver ` (2 more replies) ` Gregory Nowak 1 sibling, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Steve Holmes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run on that box. On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hi guys, > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > my problem is however, > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > just to give a quick background, > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > get linux to come up. > thanks in advance for any help > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Steve Holmes @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Shaun Oliver ` Gregory Nowak 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I can't even get the thing to come up with 2.2.16 kernel I've had people look at the screen and all I get is funny characters. I get a lilo prompt but fuck all else. after no less than 10 reboots I get it to come up talking. I sometimes get a crc error which suggests that the checksums aren't quite right I've just about run out of ideas here. and another thing, I can never get it to boot from the hard drive only via the installation disk. so for now i"m on windows until I can get it to boot first time every time. ------------------------------------ Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! http://www.eboom.com/free/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run > on that box. > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > my problem is however, > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > just to give a quick background, > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > get linux to come up. > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Steve Holmes ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Gregory Nowak ` Gregory Nowak 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also get an out of memory error as well. ------------------------------------ Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! http://www.eboom.com/free/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run > on that box. > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > my problem is however, > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > just to give a quick background, > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > get linux to come up. > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Sounds to me like a bad bios or system bus. Greg On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:02:15AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > just to add to my plite this machine has 64Mb of ram yet I sometimes also > get an out of memory error as well. > > > > ------------------------------------ > Make Unlimited phone calls from your PC to ANY phone in the World! > http://www.eboom.com/free/ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@holmesgrown.com> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 12:51 AM > Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > > > > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary > > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one > > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with > > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary > > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt > > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to > > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt > > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run > > on that box. > > > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > > > hi guys, > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > > my problem is however, > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > > just to give a quick background, > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, > I > > > get linux to come up. > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Steve Holmes ` Shaun Oliver ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Gregory Nowak 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup If you want to stick with the 2.2.x series kernels, then you may want to upgrade to the latest one which is 2.2.20. Greg On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 06:51:18AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > Sure can't hurt to try the LBA support but I doubt it is really necessary > for the 2 gig drive. When it fails do you get any funky errors? I have one > machine (old 486/66) which keeps giving me loss of interrupt messages with > a 2 gig drive on the second IDE controler. When I put it on my primary > controler, the machine just hangs and I don't even get a lilo boot prompt > or any of that. LBA did not help that situation. I ended up having to > stick to 2.2.19 kernel on that box to get around the loss of interrupt > problems. For some strange reason, I could never get a 2.4 kernel to run > on that box. > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > my problem is however, > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > just to give a quick background, > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > get linux to come up. > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. pentium 100 woes Shaun Oliver ` Steve Holmes @ ` Gregory Nowak ` Shaun Oliver 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? Greg On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hi guys, > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > my problem is however, > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > just to give a quick background, > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > get linux to come up. > thanks in advance for any help > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Gregory Nowak @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Shaun Oliver ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few things. it's never the same. I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might be lucky and get a reboot. we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any baring on it, there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. and we cannot change it. the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my situation any? On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? > Greg > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > hi guys, > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > my problem is however, > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > just to give a quick background, > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > get linux to come up. > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno@goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Shaun Oliver ` Kerry Hoath ` Pete 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup just to add to my last post, windows 9x and 2000 both boot up on that machine just fine without any complaints. so it's got me stumped. at the moment I've put my linux drive back in my pentium200 and gonna keep it that way until I can figure this bastard out. On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few > things. > it's never the same. > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might > be lucky and get a reboot. > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any > baring on it, > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. > and we cannot change it. > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my > situation any? > On Thu, 27 Dec > 2001, > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > > my problem is however, > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > > just to give a quick background, > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > > get linux to come up. > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > > -- Roger Price > > > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno@goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Shaun Oliver ` Shaun Oliver @ ` Kerry Hoath ` Pete 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup If you are seeing crc errors on a kernel boot up or intermittent boot failures and the kernel loads just fine on another machine you have a hardware problem. Either the motherboard is faulty, (they can fail without warning) or the ram is bad; or the ram timings in the bios or set by jumpers are not correct. All of these can cause strange system behaviour, signal 11s, spurious crashes and other strangeness. Windows machines just bluescreen once or twice a day under these circumstances. see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Regards, Kerry. On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:08:57AM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few > things. > it's never the same. > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might > be lucky and get a reboot. > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any > baring on it, > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. > and we cannot change it. > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my > situation any? > On Thu, 27 Dec > 2001, > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > > my problem is however, > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > > just to give a quick background, > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > > get linux to come up. > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > > -- Roger Price > > > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.net kerry@gotss.eu.org or kerry@gotss.spice.net.au ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Shaun Oliver ` Shaun Oliver ` Kerry Hoath @ ` Pete ` Shaun Oliver 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Pete @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Shaun on some of the gigabyt boards there is two bioses, the first one is used to boot normally and the second one is a backup. There is a way to restore your primary bios from the backup but I don't remember it now. Hope fully your board has this dule bios feature. I don't know when gigabyt came out whith it. What's the model number? Pete P.S. What intel chip set is it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@goanna.net.au> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:08 AM Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few > things. > it's never the same. > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might > be lucky and get a reboot. > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any > baring on it, > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. > and we cannot change it. > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my > situation any? > On Thu, 27 Dec > 2001, > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? > > Greg > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > hi guys, > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > > my problem is however, > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > > just to give a quick background, > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root filesystem > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive which > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 reboots, I > > > get linux to come up. > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > > -- Roger Price > > > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Shaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: pentium 100 woes. ` Pete @ ` Shaun Oliver 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Shaun Oliver @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I can't tell you the model number but I can tell you. that the machine was bought in 1995. and as for the intel chipset I'll find that out for you too. On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Pete wrote: > > Hi Shaun > on some of the gigabyt boards there is two bioses, the first one is used > to boot normally and the second one is a backup. There is a way to restore > your primary bios from the backup but I don't remember it now. Hope fully > your board has this dule bios feature. I don't know when gigabyt came out > whith it. What's the model number? > > Pete > P.S. > What intel chip set is it? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@goanna.net.au> > To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:08 AM > Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. > > > > ok, on the reboots that linux doesn't come up, what happens is a few > > things. > > it's never the same. > > I either get a out of memory error, a crc error, total lockup or I might > > be lucky and get a reboot. > > we found an option in the bios but I don't know if this may have any > > baring on it, > > there's an option that says pci ide mapped to isa. > > and we cannot change it. > > the motherboard is a gigabyte and the chipset is intel. > > is the bios on that board flashable and if so would it possibly help my > > situation any? > > On Thu, 27 Dec > > 2001, > > Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > On the reboots that Linux doesn't come up, what happens? > > > Greg > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 08:54:49PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > > hi guys, > > > > I just recently aquired a pentium 100 to turn into a linux box. > > > > my problem is however, > > > > I cannot get the machinte to boot first time every time. > > > > would anyone have any idea as to why this is? > > > > just to give a quick background, > > > > I have a 2Gb hard drive as my primary drive which has my root > filesystem > > > > mounted on it as well as a 165Mb swap partition. > > > > my /usr/local and /home directories are mounted on my second drive > which > > > > is a 4Gb broken up into 3 partitions. > > > > and the 3rd partition on that drive is a fat32 partition. > > > > my question is, would I need to add a line to my lilo.conf to tell my > > > > machine to use lba support or is the problem more serious than that? > > > > I have found that after much swearing and at the very least 10 > reboots, I > > > > get linux to come up. > > > > thanks in advance for any help > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > > > -- Roger Price > > > > > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno@goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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