pentium 100 woes.

[Steve Holmes]

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
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