pentium 100 woes.

[Shaun Oliver]

I can't tell you the model number but I can tell you. that the machine
was bought in 1995.
and as for the intel chipset I'll find that out for you too.
On Sat, 29 Dec
2001, Pete wrote:

> 
>   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 at goanna.net.au>
> To: <speakup at 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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-- 
Shaun Oliver

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

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