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I've been having terrible trouble getting RedHat 6.2 to boot, and
finally got frustrated enough to yank out my PCI cards.  When I yanked
out my SBLive card it booted up just fine.  Here is the behavior I get
when the card is in a slot:

1) I select 'linux' at the LILO prompt
2) Next line shows "Loading Linux........"
3) Goes to next line and freezes

There is no further output.  No "uncompressing kernel" message.
Keyboard is locked and I must press reset button.  Taking out the
SBLive card makes it all magically work.

With the SBLive in place, I am able to successfully boot to Windows98
with no trouble whatsoever, so I'm guessing it can't be a hardware
conflict.  Yet it doesn't seem that the kernel is getting far enough
for it to be a driver problem.

One interesting tidbit.  If I boot from the installation floppy that
comes with RH6.2 by typing 'vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6', the machine boots
just fine even with the SBLive in the machine.  Booting from the boot
disk created during installation freezes just like booting from the HD.

I've tried upgrading the kernel to 2.2.16-3 using the RPMs from RedHat,
but it still freezes.  FYI, I'm running an Athlon 800 on a Tyan Trinity
K7 SlotA motherboard.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to get this to work?

Thanks,

Mark

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Before you buy.

I am using an SB Live card with a Mandrake distribution.  Very similar
to yours.  Things are fine.  I suggest that you disable the Plug and
play support in your BIOS.  Linux is not currently a plug and play OS.
All of the hardware resources must be assigned at boot time.

Plug and Play allows dynamic allocation of these resources.  Your BIOS
should pick sane values.  Check out the pnpdump, isapnp and
ipapnp.conf man pages.  Also, I have had good luck with the ALSA
drivers for sound.  The other drivers (OSS) didn't seem to work too
well for me.  (Very subjective comment, I don't intend to deride
anyones work...)  Here is a link to get you started,

 "http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn/"

[can someone tell me how to copy text from one program to another
under GNOME/X-windows?  I have the URL in a Netscape location window,
but I have to retype it in my emacs/Gnus window.  That really sucks.]

fwiw,
Bill

 mblythe> Hi, I've been having terrible trouble getting RedHat 6.2 to
 mblythe> boot, and finally got frustrated enough to yank out my PCI
 mblythe> cards.  When I yanked out my SBLive card it booted up just
 mblythe> fine.  Here is the behavior I get when the card is in a
 mblythe> slot:

 mblythe> 1) I select 'linux' at the LILO prompt 2) Next line shows
 mblythe> "Loading Linux........"  3) Goes to next line and freezes