On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Nathan Lamb wrote:
> The system I am trying to install LINUX Slackware 3.6 (Kernel Version
> 2.0.35) on is a Pentium 133 MHz computer with 32 MB of DRAM. It has a STB
> NITRO 3D video card which uses the S3/ViRGE chipset, a D-LINK Ethernet card,
> and a Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16. It uses an older TOSHIBA 8X CD-ROM.
>
> I have used RAWRITE.EXE to make disk images of BARE.I and COLOR.GZ. I made
> these images on brand new, low-level formatted 1.44 MB floppy disks. I
> insert the disk with the image of BARE.I into the computer and power it on,
> and it works. The install gets to the part where it asks for you to insert
> the root disk, and at this point I insert the disk with the COLOR.GZ image
> and press Enter as indicated. However, I get no further, as I get a
> different error message almost every time I try this. I have gotten errors
> that range from "Kernel Panic: Free List Empty" to nothing but a screen of
> Hex Code, and a General Protection Error 000. I have no idea where this
> comes from, it happens no matter what root I try. I have tried UMSDOS.GZ,
> COLOR.GZ, and TEXT.GZ, not with the intent to actually try the install, but
> just to see if it would work. These boot disks work on other computers,
> just not this one.
>
> So I figured it should be a hardware problem -- and it probably is. But
> then I went and tried to install Windows 95 on it, and windows works fine.
> I also installed MSDOS 6.0, and that also worked fine.
You don't mention it, but I assume that the hard disk in your machine is
(E)IDE, since you are trying BARE.
Do you have another machine to try your disks on? The results of trying
that might be informative. Be sure you are using floppies that something
like DOS SCANDISK passes as perfect.
Good luck,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879
http://www.unl.edu/physics/
