Re: Can't Reboot to Win98 After Restarting from Woody

[Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>]

> And how to boot into single user mode? Sorry, newbie here. Are you 
> saying that I have to remove related daemons?

Single user is for repairing a seriously broken system and such.
See the docs how to start it (depends on wheter you use lilo or grub)

> I had a thought that it could be caused by module "apm" which is enabled 
> at the startup.
> I tried to remove it by using "rmmod apm", but it failed and generated 
> error "resources busy"

apm certainly is a candidate that could be causing the problems. Try not
loading the module at all, unloading will be done on shutdown, too, and
apparently isn't enough. Does your windows installation use ACPI?
(See the hardware manager)

If i remember correctly, the kernels shipped with potato did not include
APM, so that is a good candidate (but the network card as suggested in a
different posting could also be causing this)
Check if /etc/modules contains "apm", and remove that line; i think you
can also give the kernel the "noapm" parameter; also you might want to
deinstall "apmd" (which might automatically load the module)

I don't use APM, so i know nothing about it.

Greetings,
Erich

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