BIOS Data Check and then Reboot?

JC Denton · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 151 Location: USA

Alrighty, after much dialup suffering through all of my emergance, I finally completed all the steps in the install guide and rebooted the box. LILO pops up and shows me the linux image, and boot:, I let it go the five second delay and it says "Loading Linux............." then BIOS Data Check Successful and then it just reboots the entire system.

I have no idea why it's doing this. When I had Debian and tried the 2.4.20 kernel it did the same thing. Where could I be messing up

? If it helps any I'm using rc2 and a Sony Vaio 505FX laptop.

BradN · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:45 am Post subject:

It might be related to ACPI - try without enabling that, or try manually patching your kernel source with the acpi patches. You're probably not messing up... the current state of ACPI leaves some to be desired, but with a little messing around, you should get it working. You could also try the development 2.5 kernels.

JC Denton · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 151 Location: USA

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure I excluded it from my kernel, but I'll have to check again. The Gentoo menuconfig with the ugly blue was horrendous. Does anyone have a 2.4.20 laptop config on hand that they can share?

BradN · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:33 pm Post subject:

I have my .config for gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r1 at: http://theserver.dyndns.org:5677/.config

I have a Vaio PCG-FXA48 (VIA chipset, athlon 4 1.2ghz) - Good luck

JC Denton · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 151 Location: USA

Yay, one kernel bug done another to go. My stupid mistake was, I was setting the processor type to a PII when my laptop's proc is actually a PI-MMX. Yet, ironically the case badge has Pentium II MMX on it. Go figure, at least the system "starts" loading the kernel now.

Now for part II of I'm a 2.4.20 kernel idiot

. The kernel begins to boot but then hangs at saying it found a new USB hub. My laptop only has one USB port, and quite honestly I'm thinking about killing off USB support in the kernel, or at least modularizing it. Any disadvantages, advantages to doing so?

Also where in menuconfig do I go to disable SCSI and AGP. I miss xconfig

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