Re: Kernel Panic - weird error

Chmouel Boudjnah
2000-11-08T03:36:56Z

Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com> writes:

> I've installed the Linux-Mandrake 7.2 distro (which uses kernel version
> 2.2.17) on a PIII system (Asus motherboard, Award Medallion v6.0 BIOS).
> For some reason, neither LILO nor Grub were able to boot off of the
> second hard-drive (where Linux is). I've copied over the kernel, and a
> few other LILO files to a Windows partition on the primary drive. Now,
> LILO can load the kernel, and the kernel begins to boot.
>
> First, I noticed this during the IDE detection:
> hdd [PTBL] [784/255/53] hdd1 < hdd5 hdd6 >
> I've never seen the "[PTBL] [784/255/53]" part before on any Linux
> system, so I was unsure if this was important.

have you enabled the optimization ? which add the autotune options
and do some time weird thing.

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