re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-18 Thread Michael_Laing
I previously wrote: > Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the > 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. Additional info: after hitting return I get from 3 to 6 dots and then a 'bad disk' message. The disk is not bad, howeve

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-13 Thread Daniel Lynes
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:06 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: >most cases hardware will be blamed, even though the problem appears on >a variety of memory/CPU/motherboard/add-on configurations, and the same >configurations can run other OSs (*including* older versions of Linux) The external ca

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-12 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Aug 11, 7:25pm, Bruce Perens wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > On my system (brand-new AMD-486DX4-120), the error that I get tells : > me that the failure is occurring as the kernel is being : > d

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-12 Thread Bruce Perens
On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return : at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux : 1.2.13 runs fine. : I suspect (based upon bu

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

1996-08-09 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : : Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return : at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux : 1.2.13 runs fine. : : I suspect (based upo