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- From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS Installed, But Wont Boot
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:14:39 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- Michael Brennan (mebrenna@vela.acs.oakland.edu) wrote:
- : Hello,
- :
- : I have installed the newest SLS disks (A, B, C) onto my system. I put
- : it (Linux) on /dev/hdb and it seems to have installed correctly. It
- : wrote the boot disk and all! But now when I try to boot it, it
- : initalizes all the way to the floppy drive line (it is recognized)
- : then it just hangs there and doesn't get to recognizing the HDs.
- : The A1 disk recognized them, obviously.
- :
- : What needs to be done next. I have done the installation twice now,
- : redoing the FDISK and mkfs each time. I have even tried to change the
- : Bootimage with norton's diskedit to change offset 508 as listed in the
- : documentation.
- :
- : 386sx 20Mhz, 6.5mg RAM
- : 2 X 42 Meg HD IDE (C is DOS, D is Linux/Minix)
- : 3.5" A Drive
- : VGA ATI Wonder (Old)
- :
- : Anyone, please help.
- :
- Unfortunately, I'm having a similar problem.
-
- Also, it zips past the VGA selection menu and makes a choice but
- can't set it up right (I have a laptop with a Cirrus chip). It stays
- in 80x25 but thinks it has more lines. To see what the last lines
- are after it hangs, I have to ctrl-break it...
-
- Also, I was using 98.pl4 just fine, booting from the HD.
-
- 210MB IDE 60MB linux, 3.5 flop, 8MB ram, 2 ser, par port 2.
-
- sdw
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