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I've got a low end Pentium, was running Win 95, now I want to put
Linux on it and maybe use it as my internet gateway. But I can't get
anywhere with it.
If I try to boot from a floppy, I get an error. Can't remember the
exact message but something like "can't boot, replace the disk and try
again.
The bios doesn't have an option to boot from the cd-rom, but it still
seems to find it and tries to boot from it. I get a similar error.
I put the hard disk into another machine and installed Redhat 7.2 on
it. I moved this to the target machine and get similar errors.
Any ideas? It looks like a hardware problem, but Win 95 was running
with no problems.
Dan
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| Dan wrote:
> I've got a low end Pentium, was running Win 95, now I want to put
> Linux on it and maybe use it as my internet gateway. But I can't get
> anywhere with it.
>
> If I try to boot from a floppy, I get an error. Can't remember the
> exact message but something like "can't boot, replace the disk and try
> again.
>
> The bios doesn't have an option to boot from the cd-rom, but it still
> seems to find it and tries to boot from it. I get a similar error.
>
> I put the hard disk into another machine and installed Redhat 7.2 on
> it. I moved this to the target machine and get similar errors.
>
> Any ideas? It looks like a hardware problem, but Win 95 was running
> with no problems.
Did you burn the CD's?
If you did can you checked them on another system?
How much memory does the system have?
Have you tried running a memory test on the system?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/memte...ic_id=861%2C146
Is the hard drive's jumpers set for the correct device?
Is it hooked to the correct device?
How did you make the installation bootdisk?
Not much help but some ideas to check.
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| On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:14:17 GMT, David <thunderbolt01@netscape.net>
wrote:
>Did you burn the CD's?
>If you did can you checked them on another system?
Got it with the linux manual. Used it to install linux on the hard
disk when it was in the other pc.
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>How much memory does the system have?
32M (I think).
>Have you tried running a memory test on the system?
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/memte...ic_id=861%2C146
I'll give it a try.
>Is the hard drive's jumpers set for the correct device?
>Is it hooked to the correct device?
Tried a variety of configurations, primary, secondary, master, slave,
etcetera. Bios can see the disk. It tries to boot from the disk but
crashes after the splash screen.
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>How did you make the installation bootdisk?
1. While installing Red Hat.
2. Using rawrite.
>Not much help but some ideas to check.
Thanks. The memory test might be useful.
It's annoying, because I can boot from a Windows boot floppy.
Dan
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| Dan wrote:
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> Thanks. The memory test might be useful.
>
> It's annoying, because I can boot from a Windows boot floppy.
Is there any way you can add some memory to that system? RedHat 7.2
requires 64MB memory.
memory: amount of RAM installed on your system; ex: 64 MB, 128 MB
This comes from the table at the link below.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...e/ch-table.html
You might find Slackware to work on that system. I have 7.1 on an
old 50MHz 486 with 20MB RAM.
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| Joe Fredrickson 2002-12-20, 8:25 am |
| Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:21 pm will from hence forward be known as the day Dan
blabbered:
> Any ideas? It looks like a hardware problem, but Win 95 was running
> with no problems.
I know this sounds a little broken in methodology but it works rather well
suprisingly enough ...
Make a DOS boot disk (win 95 or 98 is fine) with CDROM support enabled.
Boot from this disk.
Change to the CD drive (probably D and then cd into the directory that
rawrite is in. From there you should be able to run 'boot.bat' or install
something-a-rather and it will start the install process.
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| Bill Marcum 2002-12-20, 5:24 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:21:07 +0800,
Dan < spamhater@dontspammecouseIdont
likeit.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a low end Pentium, was running Win 95, now I want to put
> Linux on it and maybe use it as my internet gateway. But I can't get
> anywhere with it.
>
> If I try to boot from a floppy, I get an error. Can't remember the
> exact message but something like "can't boot, replace the disk and try
> again.
>
If this happens with every disk, get a new floppy drive, they're cheap.
> The bios doesn't have an option to boot from the cd-rom, but it still
> seems to find it and tries to boot from it. I get a similar error.
>
> I put the hard disk into another machine and installed Redhat 7.2 on
> it. I moved this to the target machine and get similar errors.
>
If the hard disk was not installed as the primary master drive in the
other machine, then when you put it back in the first machine as primary
master, the boot loader might not know where to find the OS.
> Any ideas? It looks like a hardware problem, but Win 95 was running
> with no problems.
>
> Dan
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