Dennis Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a older 486 that I added a 3gig hard drive from my pentium. At
>the time the hard drive had linux on it(slack 4.0) and worked fine in
>the pentium system. When I put it in the 486, I removed the old 100 meg
>drive and set the hd's parameters in the setup program for the bios. The
>machine wouldn't boot on the hd, but would boot from floppy and mounted
>the new hd as root partician. The drive was /dev/hdb in the pentium
>machine and is /dev/hda in the 486. But very few things would work, and
>lilo wouldn't work, just gave a "li" when starting up and froze.
You simply can't change the HDD from primary slave to primary
master. Doing that requires that you reinstall Lilo. Or just put it
back to primary slave. It should work (if you haven't formatted it).
>So I
>tried to reformat and reinstall linux, the hard drive and the cd are
>recognised(the cd is also freshly installed), but when I get to the
>format portion of the linux setup program it starts diplaying "couldn't
>get a free page" and eventially locks up. It has 6 megs ram, unable to
>install more.
>Any ideas on this?
I guess this is due to lack of memory.
Prashant
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