What is your disk/cdr setup ?
IE, is your hard disk primary master and the cd primary slave ??
Again, with my old machine i used to have to put my CD onto the same bus as
the destination's hard disk (and when i bought a second disk, make sure it
was unplugged during install) in order to get Linux to install, then change
it back afterwards.
Pretty sure this was a flakey hardware combination (not faulty, just things
not working too well together!). In the end i ditched the system.
Obviously when doing this you'll need to change some of the system manually
(ie links to cd drive etc.) after successful post-install boot. If you
change the location of your root drive from primary to secondry or vice
versa, you will have have fun & games getting lilo to boot the new config. I
got there in the end, but can't remember how off the top of my head.
Maybe this'll help,
Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Venus 6.0 failure to load
> Bob Springett wrote:
> >
> > I wrote recently about a problem with the load failure of Venus 6.0 on a
> > PR200 Cyrix chipped PC . You answered part of the query but not why I
> > couldn't load it. I have since read that others with the same chips have
> > similar problems. Since one of the features of Venus 6.0 is to
accomodate
> > the Pentium, Cyrix and Win??? can you tell me if anything has been done
to
> > address this problem? I've tried about 8 times to load, upgrade and it
> > always 'bombs out' with error or sig 11.
> > I believe you said that the kernel updates do much to alleviate certain
> > problems but how do I update a system that I cannot load initially; I do
not
> > have CDROM writable facilities.Please tell me. Or alternatively is there
a
> > new disk available which includes all the upgrades?
> > Festen remains on my machine working well.
> > Kindest regards
> > Bob Springett
>
> I have the same problems. I've tried to load Mandrake at
> least 10 times. I could get it to boot, but not
> consistently.
> PS. I have a genuine (old) Pentium cpu.
> --
> Lloyd Osten
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
