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

[Portelance, Brad]

Hello Michael,

The boot process does not even make it as far as to even try the floppy or
CD. It simply sits at the boot screen and hangs, no even allowing you to
press F2 for BIOS Setup. If I wipe the partitions clean then it works fine.

I have escalated this to the Gateway Labs - it will be interesting to see
what they come up with. Right now it looks like a BIOS issue.

Thanks!
Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael ODonnell [mailto:michael.odonnell at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:28 AM
To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
Subject: Re: Linux not booting on Gateway E-4000 / Intel 865GLC Motherboard?



> 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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