Hi people.

Thanks for your help with two of my three previous questions

I searched around for this one and did not find any help, so please spare some time

I noticed that lilo was interfering with useability of my usb pendrive in windows (don't ask me why, it just did: i reformatted my MBR and the device was recognised again in win98se) - so I decided I want another way to boot into Slack. Enter loadlin, probably the most elegant dualboot solution due to its being adaptible to the most rigid of my two OS'es, Windows.

Here's my problem:

While I could boot just fine into Slack using lilo, using the same kernel with loadlin resulted in a litany of i810 sound errors (18 times the same error, actually - it was an irq error)

The actual device is my nforce² sound chip (mcp-t) to which my previous (and unanswered) question pertained too... I suspect the problem might be solved by using the right drivers, but even without the correct drivers I had sound when I booted from lilo...

Here's my slack.bat command line: (from memory)

loadlin vmlinuz /dev/hda7 ro vga=791

I tried adding pci=biosirq (as the error messages hint) but that didn't work. It's really a problem for me not to have sound, because I can't work without music

greetings and please help me out

D.

B - u - m - p

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME.html
http://www.slackware.com/book/index....rce=x1765.html

didn't find any answers to my questions there

Why do i get irq=0 errors while booting with loadlin, where I don't get them using LILO? How can I solve this?

I'm not terribly familiar with running a loadlin setup, but my suspicion is that your problem has something to do with Win98 Plug and Play. It might be setting your sound card settings to values the Linux kernel sound driver doesn't like. A possible workaround might be to restart Windows in DOS mode and then run loadlin from there. Of course it would be preferable to actually solve the problem. Is your BIOS set to yes for Plug and Play OS? If it is, you might try changing it to a no. Another thing you could try is manually setting the values for your sound card settings in Windows 98 to something that the Linux driver will like better.

Another possible solution would be to use LILO to boot your computer from your Linux root partition. This approach leaves the MBR alone, but you have to set your Linux root partition as the bootable partition on your hard drive with fdisk or cfdisk. This may still leave you with your original problem though (the USB pen drive problem), since I am uncertain exactly what caused that.