[PlanetCCRMA] Fixed my own problem

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Oct 10 10:00:01 2005


On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 11:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 10/9/05, Robert Jonkman <yeahtuna@lansoundstream.com> wrote:
> > I had reported having troubles getting Planet CCRMA running on my
> > laptop.  I have since reinstalled and my problem have disappeared. I had
> > included the Freshrpms in my repository setup the first time.  This time
> > I just went with the Planet Repo and everything went very smoothly and I
> > happy to report that everything is working great...almost.  I'm seeing
> > the strangest problem.  I have a centrino processor.  Usually when I
> > boot the first thing I see before grub takes over is an Asus logo and a
> > centrino logo at the bottom of the screen.  However, amazingly sometimes
> > there isn't a centrino logo, rather there's a Pentium M logo.  If if
> > starts up with te centrino logo, then my PC hangs during boot of either
> > FC4 or Win XP.  However, if I see the Pentium M logo, then everything
> > boots just fine in either XP or FC4.  Who's changing my CPU?  How is
> > this possible?  It's Craziness.  Has anyone else experienced anything
> > like this?
> 
> No, If somethign like this is happeneing, it's before grub could do
> much of anything, I think.
> 
> grub does put up a splash screen with the (presumably) Fedora logo.
> This is where you choose your kernel to boot. However there are two
> grub stages before this happens. (1 & 1.5) I find it difficult to
> imagine that grub could have anything to do with what you are seeing.
> Sounds like an Asus BIOS issue. (Or feature!) ;-)

I agree, if this is before the first grub screen then it's the BIOS that
is setting up the changing splash screen... I have no idea why that may
be happening. 

-- Fernando