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 at goanna.net.au>
> To: <speakup at 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.
> >
> >
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qShaun Oliver

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

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