On Thursday 15 November 2001 06:40 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > that should not matter. the point is that the LILO doesn't even start > - the bios thinks that you have no bootable disk which can have > following causes:
I guessed that much. But BIOS sees the partition and LILO is installed in MBR ( boot=/dev/hda ) . What is happening is that for some wierd reason BIOS doesn't recognize LILO enabled MBR as bootable. > if it still does not work post your /etc/lilo.conf That will be the next step, although it is a default one from installation. > > > > 2. What driver should I use for the sound card? > > > > > > what soundcard do you have? Is it the onboard one? ac97 or something > > > like that is often found on via motherboards, there's a driver for that > > > chipset for linux (at least alsa), but the sound quality is quite poor > > > (at least that's my observation and also confirmed by other people on > > > this list) > > > > Yes, I was talking about the internal one. > > you can probably use bios to make it look as what it is, as > soundblaster or disable it. Make sure that you enable it and then use > lspci to figure out what it is. then check kernel sound modules or alsa > to see whether the chip is supported. or post output of lspci to this > list. Thanx for the tip, lspci makes more readable output than cat /proc/pci I will see what has to be done as soon as I get home :)
