Re: Boot kills the video
Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu> writes:
> I want to put Debian on an old 486 we gae my son for Christmas. When
> booting with the resc1440.bin image that comes with the Slink distro, the
> boot gets as far as the line 'Loading root.bin ...' and the display goes
> blank. I believe the kernel loads, but there's no way to see.
This is a known problem with the syslinux shipped with slink. There
are workarounds:
- take a newer syslinux (i.e., from potato) and a slink rescue disk,
and replace the syslinux stuff ont he boot disk (it's just a DOS
floppy)
- use ldlinux and install from DOS
- use potato boot-floppies -- I don't know if it would work to use
potato boot-floppies to install slink
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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