polemicz Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 After I moved some hard drives between systems I have not been able to reboot! I can boot up without trouble after powering down, but not rebooting. This is true of Mandrake 10, Debian, and Windows 2000. The drive change was to put a Quantum Fireball KX20.5 from another system as hdb. Mandrake is on hdb (/ is hdb1) and Lilo is the bootloader. First off I have no idea what is different in the booting process when booting from a powered down system and doing a reboot from a running system. My boot sequence is cdrom, floppy, hard drive. As an experiment I tried to reboot with the Mandrake install 1 disk and got a long hang-up and an hdb: lost interrupt message. So for any hardware gurus out there any ideas what I can do? Also I am thinking about moving Mandrake to hda to see if that will help, but I lost confidence in that when I tried the cd experiment above. Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 4, 2004 Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 Maybe an acpi problem? Try linux noacpi noapic. Good luck: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted September 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2004 It won't reboot from Windows. Also I never get to the Lilo screen so I never even start to boot linux (or anything else for that matter). It takes a very long time to realize there is no cdrom and then just hangs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.