Hi all,
Hope this is the right forum for this question. I have the following problem. I'm setting up a Linux system using an Epia mini-itx mainboard (via chipset, Award Bios) aside from the mainboard, which has everything embedded (ethernet, graphics, sound), the box contains a 20GB Maxtor hard drive and an old DVD/CD-RW combo drive (which will be disconnected as soon as the install is finished) and 192MB PC100 SDRam. My problem is as follows:
- When I boot with Lilo (graphic or text) or with Grub (text) the 'choose system to boot' dialog appears, after I select which image to boot, the system states (lilo) 'loading linux.....' 'bios data check successful' and then gives a Post bleep and restarts.
- I can boot the system using a Knoppix bootable cd and work in linux.
- I can install Windows 2000 on the system and boot from the hard drive (I just choose not to
So basically I would diagnose my hardware as OK, except for the problem that I can't boot Linux, and I can't seem to find anyone with this sort of booting trouble anywhere.
Other information that might be useful:
- I tried setting the harddisk from CHS to LBA mode in the BIOS
- I'm using Mandrake 10.1 community
- I tried installing lilo in the mbr as well as on the root partition, neither place helped (grub was only installed in the mbr)
- I do not know if there is any way to get a log of the boot, considering the fact that it fails before it has a real chance to mount my drives, I guess it won't be there, but if anyone knows where I can find (or how I can generate) a bootlog file for lilo I would be much obliged.
Hope someone can help me.
Cheer,
Merijn
