MHR wrote:
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Mark Snyder wrote:
I do not know, but I suspect that the problem has something to do with the fact that /boot is type ext2 while the rest of the file system is type ext3. I must have done this accidentally installing the system. It would take up to much of my time to reinstall the whole system again on the laptop, setup repositories, install wine, install wireless, install gstm and configure etc etc.
I doubt this is the source of your problem, but google can tell you how to convert an ext2 fs to ext3 (tune2fs). Very easy, nothing to reinstall.
I agree.
Are you sure that the hardware is supported on CentOS? I don't recognize the specific model you mentioned, so I don't know what CPU, motherboard, memory, etc. you have.
Have you tried timeout=0?
Have you checked all the PROM settings?
I'm just fishing here 'cuz nothing so far rings a bell....
HTH
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You are both absolutely correct, changing from ext2 to ext3 did nothing to fix this. Not sure about the MB manufactured but it is a Pentium M 1.60GHz stepping 08 CPU with an Intel 915G chipset and a WD600UE ATA HDD
About the only options in the BIOS are the Date and Time and the Boot sequence.
I had actually tried to load Ubuntu first as I had herd (pun intended) "good things" about it. Was not at all happy with that distro and moved back to CentOS ASAP.
Setting timeout=0 does allow it to boot without having to press the enter key. The splash screen just flashes then the boot starts. Not really a solution but a workaround. I can live with it this way but still curious as to what is going on.