>> That's usually rather easier to fix - go into your ROM BIOS setup,
>> find the option determining what errors to stop on, and change it
>> to "None". The default is usually "All except keyboard", and the
>> machine will lock up if it can't find a video card on that
>> setting.
> No, no, no. Looks like a lot of people have trouble
> understanding the situation: LILO DOES BOOT, so it's _NOT_ the
> BIOS. Without a monitor, I can hear the memory test tick and
> then the bootup beep. Then LILO boots, loads the kernel image
> and decompresses it, but hangs after trying to boot the kernel
> until I plug in a monitor. After that it boots up fine. I tried
> with various configurations of 2.2.4 and 2.2.5. No change.
That's what I'm referring to - it hangs at the point where the kernel
image tries to read the PCI configuration block, due to the above-
mentioned BIOS problem...
Best wishes from Riley.
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| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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