Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-20 Thread Fabian Knittel
sk) > > Soon, that will be the case. NOW this IS the case :-)) -- > Von: Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: 'Fabian Knittel' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Betreff: RE: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM > Datum: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 23:33 >

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-19 Thread Fabian Knittel
> From: Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 02:34 > 1°) Try commenting compact Already tried that, then LILO started but only typed 'LI' > 2°) I don't think that your BIOS support lba. I don't either... :-) > If I'm right you'll have to > declare your disk

RE: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-19 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hello >Hi, > >I've got some problems with Linux and my little test-computer. Im >struggling with the low amount of memory (only 4 MB). The complete >configuration: > >80386 with 40 Mhz >4 MB of RAM >1.6 GByte HD [...] >[ 1 ]L I L O > > At startup it only says: > > 3FA: > > It just

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-18 Thread Stephen Gregory
> --snip-- > > boot=/dev/hda3 I can't rember what your exact setup was, but you might want to change this to boot=/dev/hda That is how I have it set. ( I have a dual booting linux + dos/win95 machine) IIRC this will set the boot information for the whole drive (mater boot record). The above lin

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Fabian Knittel wrote: > > A shoot in the dark: Try putting the "root" line after the "image" > > line. that wouldn't (shouldn't) make any difference at all, except that you now have to repeat the "root=" line for every image listed in lilo.conf. values set in the global sect

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-18 Thread Fabian Knittel
> Von: Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM > Datum: Sonntag, 18. Januar 1998 00:32 > > "Fabian Knittel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > boot=/de

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-17 Thread Sten Anderson
"Fabian Knittel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > boot=/dev/hda3 > root=/dev/hda3 > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > A shoot in the dark: Try putting the "root" line after the "image" line. - Sten Anderson -- T

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-17 Thread Fabian Knittel
Thanx for your tips, but they didn't help :-( -- > Von: Stephen Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: Fabian Knittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM > Datum: Samstag, 17. Januar 1998 19:

Re: Problems with 80386 and 4 MB of RAM

1998-01-17 Thread Stephen Gregory
> [ 1 ] L I L O > > At startup it only says: > > 3FA: I had the same problem. Edit /etc/lilo.conf and comment out the "compact" line. BTW this is a bug. How do I report a bug? Lilo.conf should have compact off by default. The documentation clearly states that compact does not wo