a few things

[Holmes, Steve]

I have got a machine at home where two IDE drives are involved.  The 40
megger I have in there boots fine, the original 425 megger boots OK in there
when I had it installed, but the 2.5 gigger does not!  Lilo hangs after
putting 3 or four characters on the screen.  That's why I tried booting with
the 40 meg drive and hung the 2.5 gig on /dev/hdc; that process worked fine
til I tried using 2.4 kernel.  Now I get "interrupt lost" over and over.  I
may consider repartitioning the 2.5 gig drive and see what happens there.
The ide.txt file suggested issues possibly with jumper settings.  I messed
around with jumper settings for several hours last night and came up with no
new answers at all!  The sooner I can get away from those jumpers, the much
better off I'll be <sigh>.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buddy Brannan [mailto:davros at ycardz.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:25 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: a few things


Hi,

I don't think the hard disk size is the problem. Lilo has worked
around that issue by now, I believe.

However, here's a thought. At least, it happened to me once. Check
your motherboard's CMOS settings. If you have a virus detection in
your CMOS (built-in, not software like Mcafee), disable it, because it
thinks lilo is a boot sector virus. Confused the hell out of me!
Anyway, once that's done...well...that should help. BTW, lilo should
work fine...I know nothing about grub.
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV    | From the pines down to the projects,
Email: davros at ycardz.com | Life pushes up through the cracks.
Phone: (972) 276-6360    | And it's only going forward,
ICQ: 36621210            | And it's never going back.--Small Potatoes

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