[Cialug] recreating my linux boot

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SIS => Seriously Inferior Sh*t

--
Tim W.


> You should be able to boot from CD1 or CD2, hit the key (F1?) for "more 
> boot options" and type "rescue" at the prompt if you need to redo your 
> lilo or something like that.
> 
> For your video card, is Knoppix loading a specific driver, or using 
> Framebuffer? I'd guess its Framebuffer, and you can tell Mandrake to use 
> that driver as well.
> 
> p.s. SIS is Chinese for "Piece of Junk".
> 
> -dc
> 
> ralph wrote:
> >  From the notes at the Mandrake site, one needs to boot up from CD2. 
> > There is an oops with CD1. Having said that, I'm still having problems 
> > in that Mandrake Linux doesn't recognize my SIS video card--KNOPPIX does 
> > btw. Again how do I go from here as when I issue the startx command from 
> > Mandrake, an error message comes up with an error in the etc/XFree86 file.
> > Thanks all
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Von Ahsen" <barry@vonahsen.com>
> > To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] recreating my linux boot
> > 
> > 
> >> ralph wrote:
> >>
> >>> Once again I've become the victim of DIT's mo bo's and so I need to 
> >>> reinstall Mandrake 10.0. Unfortunately the system will not recognize 
> >>> the CD for the distro as bootable for install.  What should I do:
> >>>
> >>
> >> double check that the bios is set to boot from cd, and that the cd is 
> >> okay
> >>
> >> -barry
> 
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