Subject: bitchy 486
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:57:07PM +0000
In reply to:Kenneth Scharf
Quoting Kenneth Scharf([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I have put together a 486DX2-66 machine from old parts. It's a
> vers-local bus machine with 8M of dram, 200mb disk drive (I have a 2g
> I can swap in), an 8x ide cdrom drive, and a cirrus based vesa local
> bus video card (boca) with 1m on it (add two chips for 2m). I have
> tried to boot slackware and debian on it (so far havn't tried red
> hat). Initially the cdrom was on a second ide card as it's own
> master, now its a slave to the hd on the pri ide. Reason was that
> slackware reported the cd as an IDE TAPE when on the second card! It
> reports correctly when it's on the pri card???? Slackware installed
> ok, except for it would not activate a swap partition.
>
> I tried to boot the debian rescue disk and got about halfway there
> when it failed with 'boot failed'
>
> Any ideas what 'boot failed' means? (I can boot slackware 3.4 'bare'
> and 'color' disks ok, also windoz 95 boot disk boots ok).
>
Sounds familiar. I have installed Debian 3 different times and have
seen that error message each time. I solved it by re-making the
rescue disk. Got so that I made 2-3 of _each_ disk, just in case. I
don't think is is Debian, just crappy disks!
HTH
--
"You can't make a program without broken egos."
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