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Article #595Re: PC Locks up on boot - totally buggered
From: Andy Hawkins
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00
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Brian Sheehan (brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> However, when I come to boot the machine totally locks up at the
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regions of the University of Calafornia
> prompt.
The majority of boot failures I've seen tend to occur with failures in the
hardware detection. The major culprit for this seems to be an ethernet
adaptor. Do you have one of these? If so, I'd reccomend:
1. Remove the Ethernet adaptor from your PC.
2. Boot Linux (hopefully successfully!!).
3. Re-compile the kernel ensuring you only select options you need.
4. Re-boot with this kernel to make sure it works.
5. Replace your Ethernet adaptor.
6. Reboot again and see if THAT works.
If it still doesn't work, try posting more info about your setup etc.
Andy
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