From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.goanna.net.au ([202.139.184.13] helo=goanna.net.au) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Jb6d-0002AI-00 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:01:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 23958 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2001 14:02:37 -0000 Received: from async-227.sydney-isp1.portmaster3-1.goanna.net.au (HELO shaun) (202.139.184.227) by mail.goanna.net.au with SMTP; 27 Dec 2001 14:02:37 -0000 Message-ID: <002701c18edf$17818560$4700a8c0@shaun> From: "Shaun Oliver" To: References: Subject: Re: pentium 100 woes. Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:02:15 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 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" To: 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 > >