GodFlesh Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake on a box of one of my friends. Tried first with 9.1 just after boot, black screen after the "press enter" So i tried F1 to boot with the text option. It goes a little than freeze I tried a knoppix (version from last chrismas), and same problem black screen after the "knoppix lang=fr" I tried a W2k install, and everything worked ! So this was not a big hardware problem.. I Re-tried with a 9.1, this time i used the other kernel (2.2 instead of 2.4). It worked and installation went fine. But if i boot on the HD, just afer lilo again the black screen... Today i tried 9.2 rc2 Same behaviour While trying the text option, it crashes at about the same time as with 9.1, but this time i've got an error message of the kernel wich loops at the screen where there is the world "APIC" I have search about that and it seems to be related to SMP, but this is a classical motherboard with via kt400 and one athlon 2800+ Please help ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 make sure you have append "noacpi apic=no" in lilo.conf. You can set it in MDK control centre boot options OR just edit by hand. This should solve it... im just leaving work but Ill check back in 30 mins hopefully... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodFlesh Posted September 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Hi, The problem is that i don't have access to lilo.conf I tried to write to lilo: failsafe noacpi noapic but still doesn't work. i tried to activate !!! the apic support in the bios but failed too i tried the last knoppix but same problem I tried to put a free bsd on it and it worked ! Seems like this computer doesn't like linux 2.4' :-((((((((((((((( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 At install.....F1>linux noapic or expert noapic I have an Abit KD7 MoBo with the KT400 and a Athlon 1900+ and have to boot ML9.1 with noapic acpi=off All other distros are fine, including morphix. So, it's the mdk 2.4 not all 2.4's, for me anyway. I also get messages about smp and I don't have a smp capable MoBo. I d/k why the kernel comes up with that. BTW, if I install with noapic it's very slow. I can install without it but need noapic acpi=off for it to work after install :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 If you installed already then you need to edit lilo. if not do the install like bcv says. If you can't access lilo you need to boot up in rescue (use install CD then F1) You need to let it mount you partitions under /mnt then do a chroot /mnt (means you don't need to pass arguaments to lilo as to where lilo.conf is) and then vi /etc/lilo.conf Make sure you add the append stuff and then esc :wq! and remember to run lilo (type lilo) It should update the mbr and add the options to pass top the kernel (which is what append actualy does). Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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