So I pulled the battery and unplugged the computer for about 15 minutes, booted up and got to lilo. Then I rebooted with a boot disk and made a link to the old kernel in lilo. Now everything works fine again. Scared the crap outa me :-) Marc Marc Ohmann wrote: > So I broke down and bought a new vaio on Friday and have been playing > all weekend. Everything was working just fine, I had the 802.11b > working in windows and was setting it up in linux. Since I had to > build a new kernel anyhow I decided to download the latest (2.4.9). > The build went fine and after the reboot I got some huge error > "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF00000000" something like that. So I thought oops > I should've saved a lilo option for my old kernel. No big deal, I > thought this would give me the perfect opportunity to try my new > bootable slack 8.0 cd I just burned. Plug it in and reboot to a > screen full of garbage -- as far as I can tell it never gets past the > bios. So I try a reboot holding f2, same result. Any ideas? I've > tried booting to a boot disk also with no luck. I hope I didn't just > fry my new toy. Sure seems like a bios problem to me -- is there > anyway that 2.4.9 did this? > > I was having sooo much fun [:-(] > marc >