Re: Bootdisk / syslinux Problems
Hi
I have had the same problems as Hans-Peter (see below).
I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell 466/Le with 24Mb of main
memory and a 1.7Gb disk.
However the boot image fails on loading root.bin (or initrd.img on other
systems). One period is emmitted and then the system hangs or the screen
blanks and a dos reboot occurs. On one occasion a few characters on the
screen became corrupted.
I have tried the -safe and -tecra-safe images but they do not solve the
problem. The boot images for Redhat 5.1/5.2 and Suse 6.0 cause similar
symptoms. The Redhat 5.0 image works fine and the installed os works
without problems.
Can anyone suggest a fix?
James.
>Hi,
>
>I recently got an old Dell 486 PC. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on it,
>but booting with a disk which is using syslinux is not working. I tried
>bootdisks from other distributions to make shure, that it's syslinux -
>same results. Booting from a RedHat 5.0 bootdisk, this one is not using
>syslinux, worked fine. The boot process always stops after a few seconds:
>loading xxx .... Has anybody seen this before ? What can I do ? Booting
>from CD-ROM is no option, because the PC has no CD :-) I tried to change
>the hardware, no change.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Hans-Peter
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