On Friday 22 April 2005 3:08 pm, Clayton wrote:
So... not making much progress here.... any other suggestions?
When you are rebooting from Windows to Linux is it a warm reboot or a cold, hard one? Do you just let it reboot via shutdown commands (warm) or do you hit the reset button (hard) once Windows shuts down and before it begins its boot up? Or do you do a full power off, unplug the power for 30 seconds or so and then power back on (really cold)? Some systems don't have a very clean warm reboot cycle. Some hardware gets left in a state that the OS doesn't deal with well or doesn't know to clear. A cold reboot with a power interruption can clear those settings. IF (thats a big if there) your system behaves differently rebooting from Windows to Linux depending on the method of rebooting, warm versus cold, that could be it. Sometimes BIOS settings can change that behavior. Sometimes newer drivers or changes in kernel routines will fix it. My main system has this capability and I always forget about it until the next upgrade... maybe not this time though. My choice of DHCP client fixed my NIC not being found on warm reboots in the past. Stan