Dear Sir

0) Nearly every LiveCD plus the Yoper CD gives
me this stupid message on every bootup:

"BIOS data check successful

You passed an undefined mode number. Press ENTER to see video modes available or SPACE to continue or wait 30 secs."

Even when I specify a mode number, this stupid message invariably shows up
everytime on every boot.

Can someone tell me how I can get rid of this message??

1) What filesysten should the boot partition have?
I'm thinking of ReiserFS. Am I right?

2) While partitioning with a LiveCD, should I mount
the partitions after having created them?

3) While creating partitions, it asks me whether I'd
want to move the current files to the new partition OR
hide the files. Which should I opt for?

4) Which partition(s) should I make the bootable partition?
What if I make other partitions bootable?

Thanks & take care
CoolBlue

1) Invalid mode:

Go into your bootloader config file and add vga=9. This should make the error about the mode go away every time you boot. Grub syntax should look something like this (I'm not sure how this looks exactly in Lilo):

If you use GRUB, the config file might be one of these depending on the distro:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/boot/grub/grub.conf

If you use lilo, the config file should be /etc/lilo.conf.

4) Bootable partition:

You shouldn't have to make any partition bootable in fdisk (or any other graphical partitioning software for that matter). The boot loader (grub or lilo) will probably be installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record) instead of in one of the individual partitions. In most installations I've seen, what ever partition is going to be mounted at /boot (usually partition 0) is made bootable. I don't think this is needed in many cases though.

0) - See if you can add a video override to the kernel options on boot - something like1) - ext2. You don't need logging or a high performance fs at that point. You need simple and well supported.
2) - what does the installation doco say ???. Handy if you want to use them.
3) - no idea. Don't understand the reference - don't recall ever facing this.
4) - I dont believe it matters with grub; may be the same with lilo. Windoze generally wants its marked bootable.

HEY THANKS A LOT FOR UR REPLIES! I HOPE I GET RID OF MY PROBLEM!

TAKE CARE
YASSER

vga=normal worked for me... vga=9 did not. Yay!