Rescue disk fails for initial installation
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope
Rescue disk fails for initial installation
I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope
Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation
This might not be the easiest way but ... Try downloading tom's root/boot diskette (www.toms.net/rb) and see if the box will IPL from it. If it does follow the instrucctions in the append I just made to the list ... Good luck. Bob Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Loading root.bin... The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where it is hanging. I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to convert to Linux.). -bucky pope -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation
On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Bucky Pope wrote: I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit enter, I get the following message: Uh, it does have an 80386 or later processor, right? Linux absolutely, positively will not work on 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, NEC V20, etc. Just checking the obvious possibilities first. :) -- G. Branden Robinson |Convictions are more dangerous enemies Debian GNU/Linux |of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Friedrich Nietzsche cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgp93lVw67VCu.pgp Description: PGP signature
