Dual boot system

[Derek Martin]

Today, Randall Hofland gleaned this insight:

> Hello;
> 
>     I finally gave up on trying to set up SuSE 6.3 for a dual boot
> system. Although my original clean install of 6.3 worked flawlessly on a
> K6 system except for the video card which failed with both LINUX and NT
> (same problem with several cards suggests a problem with the AGP port
> itself), all of my recent efforts at installing a dual boot system on a
> dual Pentium system using multiple partitions on a SCSI and IDE drive
> combination have led to much wasted time.

Try making sure your BIOS is set to assign an IRQ to the video card.
Several cards require this, and often it is not turned on by default. That
may fix your problem with the video card.


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