Re: pentium 100 woes.

["Pete" <persuric@ameritech.net>]

  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
> > >
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