Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 Richard.Dansereau@EE.UManitoba.CA 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..
>
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