Re: bitchy 486

["Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

-> 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).

that is not problem of linux distribution(debian/redhat/slackware)
that's problem of linux KERNEL and that's linux (in all distribs the same)

you can try to recompile kernel and define everything you need,
undefine everything you don't need and it should work.

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 Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia
 BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz