pentium 100 woes.
Gregory Nowak
gnowak1 at uic.edu
Thu Dec 27 11:19:59 EST 2001
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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>
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