On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > The actual power goes off while booting? To your whole machine? Linux > cannot do this, AFAIK. (Unless with power-saving features compiled > in?) You have a severe hardware problem.
Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine completely before booting linux it normally works. I think that I just forgot again to stop the machine completely (just rebooted win and hit F8 while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) > Power supply? There is nothing wrong with that. Cf above. - hv
