old gigabyte motherboard.

old gigabyte motherboard.

[Shaun Oliver]

hi guys.
I have here a pentium 100 that I want to install linux on at some point.
I've posted on this problem a while ago and some people were wondering
what model my mother board was.
it's a ga-586-at revision3 first edition. and as far as I can assertain,
the bios is a flash 128k
my problem is, I can't get linux to boot on it at all.
I have a variety of things happen when I even try.
I either get a screen full of funny ascii characters, or, I endup with my
floppy drive constantly spinning or I get a fucked up lilo prompt
some times after about somewhere between 20-30 attampts, I can get the
kernel to load.
I've tryed different floppies and as many boot parameters as I could think
of at the time but to no avail.
and according to the hand book I have here the jumpers and all are
configured correctly.
btw as an asside, in the bios settings, there's an option which cannot be
altered and it says "PCI ide mapped to isa."
anyone have any ideas as to what this is all about?
thanks in advance.


-- 
qShaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435

Re: old gigabyte motherboard.

[Thomas Ward]

Ok, this is certainly unusual behavior. I've had good results with gigabyte
motherboards.
HHave you tried refreshing the bios, and set everything back to factory
defaults?
It seams almost as if it is trying to boot off an   off board ide controler
rather than the primary controler.
Have you tried another operating system such as Windows to see if it boots
ok with that?


----- Original Message -----
From: Shaun Oliver <shauno@goanna.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:44 AM
Subject: old gigabyte motherboard.


> hi guys.
> I have here a pentium 100 that I want to install linux on at some point.
> I've posted on this problem a while ago and some people were wondering
> what model my mother board was.
> it's a ga-586-at revision3 first edition. and as far as I can assertain,
> the bios is a flash 128k
> my problem is, I can't get linux to boot on it at all.
> I have a variety of things happen when I even try.
> I either get a screen full of funny ascii characters, or, I endup with my
> floppy drive constantly spinning or I get a fucked up lilo prompt
> some times after about somewhere between 20-30 attampts, I can get the
> kernel to load.
> I've tryed different floppies and as many boot parameters as I could think
> of at the time but to no avail.
> and according to the hand book I have here the jumpers and all are
> configured correctly.
> btw as an asside, in the bios settings, there's an option which cannot be
> altered and it says "PCI ide mapped to isa."
> anyone have any ideas as to what this is all about?
> thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> qShaun Oliver
>
> Marriage is a three ring circus:
> engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
>                 -- Roger Price
>
> Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
> Icq: 76958435
>
>
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Re: old gigabyte motherboard.

[Shaun Oliver]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Ok, this is certainly unusual behavior. I've had good results with gigabyte
> motherboards.
> HHave you tried refreshing the bios, and set everything back to factory
> defaults?
> It seams almost as if it is trying to boot off an   off board ide controler
> rather than the primary controler.
> Have you tried another operating system such as Windows to see if it boots
> ok with that?

Yes I have and windows 2000 boots with no problems at all. and believe it
or not the redhat bootdisk boots ok as well
just not a linux kernel on  it's native filesystem.
dunno why.



>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shaun Oliver <shauno@goanna.net.au>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:44 AM
> Subject: old gigabyte motherboard.
>
>
> > hi guys.
> > I have here a pentium 100 that I want to install linux on at some point.
> > I've posted on this problem a while ago and some people were wondering
> > what model my mother board was.
> > it's a ga-586-at revision3 first edition. and as far as I can assertain,
> > the bios is a flash 128k
> > my problem is, I can't get linux to boot on it at all.
> > I have a variety of things happen when I even try.
> > I either get a screen full of funny ascii characters, or, I endup with my
> > floppy drive constantly spinning or I get a fucked up lilo prompt
> > some times after about somewhere between 20-30 attampts, I can get the
> > kernel to load.
> > I've tryed different floppies and as many boot parameters as I could think
> > of at the time but to no avail.
> > and according to the hand book I have here the jumpers and all are
> > configured correctly.
> > btw as an asside, in the bios settings, there's an option which cannot be
> > altered and it says "PCI ide mapped to isa."
> > anyone have any ideas as to what this is all about?
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > --
> > qShaun 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
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-- 
qShaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno@goanna.net.au
Icq: 76958435