On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, thanks for the hints. I turned off my BIOS' PnP initialization feature and everything worked smoothly. Very strange!
brian > Hmmm.. I had the exact same thing happen with my laptop. I wasn't able > to boot up at all with any of the kernels (except the one I had made > myself.. which wasn't any good since it wasn't a Rescue Disk). It may > not be the same problem.. but, I know on my laptop I was finally able to > get it booting by making some changes to me CMOS. In my case, it would > appear that my sound card was conflicting somehow and making the system > hang. I think it may have been that I had my DMA channels set wrong (or > maybe my IRQ.. I really didn't play around with it too much). If you > CMOS contains specific DMA settings or IRQ settings you may want to try > changing them one at a time, try booting, and then changing them back. > Unfortunately, without me knowing what is going on in the internals of > the boot process at that point.. I can't help you out further. > > Good luck! > Richard.. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Dansereau > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse > Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .