how should i set up my linux partitions?

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
then at what point could i hook the KVM switch back up?

Not sure. Thought you might want to do it to see if it would work, then you could hopefully find a way to fix it.[/quote]

well, that aint it. i just tried it with an ancient micron keyboard in the keyboard slot, same result. it refuses to load the keymap.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva

Originally posted by: dighn
holy shlt you downloaded a lot of files.

anyway I would just use a swap partition and one big root partition. no need for seperate usr, home partitions for regular use, especially if you are new to linux. well maybe /home if you want to keep your settings and files seperate from the rest of it all. and modern bios doesn't have that boot limitation so /boot partition is not necessary either.

That reminds me. You might also want to turn off "plug and play" in your bios, if you have that setting.

why would i do that?

 

[Willoughbyva]

It might cause some type of conflict with Linux. I don't really know the technical stuff about it. I know for my pc, if I have PnP turned on my winmodem won't work in linux. I don't think that is why your linux won't boot, but like I said I don't know the technical stuff about it. There is probably a lot of stuff in google groups that will answer the questin technically.

 

[Walleye]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
It might cause some type of conflict with Linux. I don't really know the technical stuff about it. I know for my pc, if I have PnP turned on my winmodem won't work in linux. I don't think that is why your linux won't boot, but like I said I don't know the technical stuff about it. There is probably a lot of stuff in google groups that will answer the questin technically.

didnt work either...

i'll try google...

 

[Walleye]

google dont know.

this is pissing me off. the system has hung trying to load a US keymap. i dont understand it.

and for some reason, it wont allow me to do a damn interactive boot.......

 

[Willoughbyva]

Try turning off plug and play in your bios first. Then you might try with out the kvm switch if that doesn't work.

 

[Walleye]

i did turn off plug and play. everything works till it trys loading keymap (us)

nothing happens past that point. in whatever startup routine i try.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Not really sure. Try booting again with the 1st cd and see if there is a rescue mode where it will fix the booting process. I know there is something like that in there, but have forgotten the exact terminology. That is the only thing besides trying a reinstall that i know of.

What motherboard and keyboard are you using? k7s5apro? what keyboard?

 

[Walleye]

yeah, K7S5A PRO 5.0...


Dell Enhanced Multimedia Keyboard... but i also tried it with an old Micron Keyboard from pre-win 95 days...

 

[Walleye]

i just reformatted the linux partitions, and am reinstalling linux. we'll see if it works out...

 

[Walleye]

after reinstallation, it wont get past "Finding Module Dependencies"

 

[Willoughbyva]

Did it ever get past that stage? It takes mine a few seconds to that and it takes even longer to "finding new hardware", but it usually boots on up. During the install did you opt to download and install updates?

 

[manly]

One random thing to try is turning off ACPI, which ships with Mandrake Linux 9.1 and recent SuSE Linux versions. How?

Trying passing acpi=off as a boot parameter. Snoop the manual on how to do this with GRUB (or LILO on some systems); it's usually pretty simple.

As a note, if you install Mandrake with ACPI enabled, it'll stay enabled for the system's boot kernel. Otherwise, it'll be disabled. In theory, ACPI is enabled only for chipsets that flawlessly support it. But in practice, it may cause some problems.

 

[Walleye]

it WILL not go past "Finding Module Dependencies"


this is Fvcking pissing me off to no end.

 

[Walleye]

i cant find a rescue mode on the cd.