Re: bitchy 486

[wtopa@ix.netcom.com]

	Subject: bitchy 486
	Date: Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:57:07PM +0000

In reply to:Kenneth Scharf

Quoting Kenneth Scharf(scharkalvin@yahoo.com):
> 
> 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

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"You can't make a program without broken egos."
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