Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 09:49:57AM -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote: > On 11/09/2013 06:08 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > > >>The machine is an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard, IA64 "Sandy Bridge" > >>architecture, > >[...] > > > >On the Asus website, this is not an IA64 motherboard, but a X86-64 > >(amd64)

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 09.11.2013 09:26, Ray Dillinger a écrit : I have a strange problem where my computer does not recognize *ANY* boot device or boot medium other than one single hard drive where a badly configured debian linux is installed. I don't think the particulars of that messed-up install are relevant,

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
On 11/09/2013 06:08 AM, didier gaumet wrote: The machine is an Asus Sabertooth X79 motherboard, IA64 "Sandy Bridge" architecture, [...] On the Asus website, this is not an IA64 motherboard, but a X86-64 (amd64) one. Trying an amd64 version of Debian could help... On the ASUS website the boar

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 09/11/2013 09:26, Ray Dillinger a écrit : [...] > I don't understand how it can possibly happen, because I have completely > unplugged > that hard drive, flashed the BIOS of the machine with the most recent > update [...] Asus website says that Bios rev <= 1203 needs to be converted by an utili

Re: Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, your bios settings are messed up on that computer. You need to go into bios settings and give them some clues about what's actually on the computer in terms of hardware. The bios settings on your machine have lost their mind somehow. On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > I have

Weird boot problem. How can this be?

2013-11-09 Thread Ray Dillinger
I have a strange problem where my computer does not recognize *ANY* boot device or boot medium other than one single hard drive where a badly configured debian linux is installed. I don't think the particulars of that messed-up install are relevant, but I've put a note about it at the bottom jus

Weird boot problem

2001-12-10 Thread shock
I'm running Debian Woody, and have been using kernel v2.2.18 for a long while. Recently, I upgraded to 2.4.16. make, make modules, and make modules_install worked great. However, when I boot to the new kernel, as soon as Lilo.. finishes, the system reboots. Just for kicks, I tried with 2.4.

Weird boot problem

2000-10-17 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Ok, I'm sure if this is lilo, or what but the last few times I have had to reboot(not often, admitedly) Lilo has been rendered unusable and I have to boot from a CD and re-run lilo. I havn't been changing kernels or anything. Usually it'll go LIL- and freeze, but just recently it tried to boot the