bitchy 486
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).
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