Linux not booting on Gateway E-4000 / Intel 865GLC Motherboard?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Fri Jan 30 11:28:09 EST 2004


> Has anyone every had an experience w/the above System / Motherboard
> freezing at the BIOS Screen only when there's Linux partitions on the
> Hard Drive?  If there's any other partition or none at all, then the
> system makes it past the BIOS screen with no problem.


I don't think Linux cares how the partitions are
marked, so you could try to mark them as some other
type (maybe mark them as being the same type as the
working Windows partition)

You might placate the BIOS if you configured a tiny
little Windows partition as the first one and then
used the rest of the disk for Linux.  Maybe you could
use that Windows partition as swap.
 
I'm curious: will it boot a Linux floppy or CD?
 



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