aze Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Hi all! I'm having a problem when booting up my quantum 40gb 7200rpm. I have 2 OS: win2k & mdk9 The problem is not the bootloader because It happens with lilo and xosl www.xosl.org When I just turn on the pc the bootloader works fine. But If I'm in some OS (independent) and then I restart the pc the bootloader won't work properly. It ignore any keypress (to choose wich OS I want) and load the default OS (in my case, win2k). So it loads win2k but when explorer starts it have no keyboard and no mouse. (maybe its a windows problem) But what is really annoying me is the fact that the bootloader don't work at second time booting (it will work properly only if I reset the pc) I already disabled BIOS MBR protection but don't helped. What should I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 It looks like the bios doesn't see the keyboard (which then continues in w2k) upon reboot. What if you set lilo to boot to mdk9 by default, does it then also not have keyboard and mouse? Do you have a usb keyboard and mouse? Have you checked bios settings? If you can't select things in the bootloader menu, it seems your bios doesn't work right... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 ok... I'll try to do what you said and make a clearCMOS and then I'll back here to post the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 Just out of curiousity, why use 2 boot loaders? Doesn't that just make it extra complicated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted January 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 cannonfodder: I dont use 2 bootloaders. I was just testing one and other. now I'm using lilo aRTee: i don't have usb keyb/mouse I made a clear CMOS and reconfigured the BIOS but it still bugging. Everything is fine about using keyb/mouse. Maybe bugging is something at mbr. It boots fine only the first time. It have been occurring since a copuple days ago. What could be the cause of this annoying problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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