Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:58:31 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.5 won't boot? |
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Hi Jussi.
>> That's usually rather easier to fix - go into your ROM BIOS setup, >> find the option determining what errors to stop on, and change it >> to "None". The default is usually "All except keyboard", and the >> machine will lock up if it can't find a video card on that >> setting.
> No, no, no. Looks like a lot of people have trouble > understanding the situation: LILO DOES BOOT, so it's _NOT_ the > BIOS. Without a monitor, I can hear the memory test tick and > then the bootup beep. Then LILO boots, loads the kernel image > and decompresses it, but hangs after trying to boot the kernel > until I plug in a monitor. After that it boots up fine. I tried > with various configurations of 2.2.4 and 2.2.5. No change.
That's what I'm referring to - it hangs at the point where the kernel image tries to read the PCI configuration block, due to the above- mentioned BIOS problem...
Best wishes from Riley.
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