Re: Reboot failure after vacation!

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just returned from a trip overseas and turned on my pentium 166 system
> to start up LINUX (running from RH 6.1 on BSWare 6.1 CDROM) and got lots
> of errors which became less noisy and hopeless until I got to the prompt
> just before asking which OS I wanted to use when, after the usual delay,
> it starts printing 01 01 01 01 ... continuously.  It does so after several
> reboot attempts.  Fortunately I did make a backup diskette and am able to
> boot from it.  I'm guessing that my boot sector is bad but I'm not sure
> how to restore it.   I do not have a 'rescue' disk at this point.
> 
> A second problem is that once up in LINUX, my Practical Peripherals
> external modem fails to work.  ifup ppp2 seems to work fine and looks ok
> in the control panel and the lights on the modem seem to show attempts to
> pick up the line and dial but that does not happen at all, as verified by
> listening on a phone on that line.  The OH and ... light never light up at
> all.  Seems that the modem is dead (lightning peak should not have a been
> a problem since I'm passing the line through a gounded line protector).
> The modem as well as the computer had been turned off but not disconnected
> from the line(s).
> 
> One possibility for both problems is that in my initial difficulties, I
> had to change the BIOS setting for the CPU to be 166MHz instead of the 150
> which showed up there.  Also in shutting down,  I have an error message
> about a system map error.  I haven't a clue how to proceed.  Any
> suggestions?

Neither your modem, nor your copy of BSware is Y2K compliant.
Buy a new CD, a new computer and a new modem.

While the above lie may sell more CD's for KLUG, it's NOT TRUE!  :{)

Did you change anything else in the BIOS, like LBA settings?
If not, then you may have some hardware problems.   :(

After you get the machine booted, as root run the command "lilo"
and see if that fixes your boot from hard drive problem.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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