Re: Rescue disk fails for initial installation
This might not be the easiest way but ...
Try downloading tom's root/boot diskette (www.toms.net/rb) and see if
the box will IPL from it.
If it does follow the instrucctions in the append I just made to the
list ...
Good luck. Bob
Bucky Pope wrote:
>
> I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD
> drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit
> enter, I get the following message:
>
> Loading root.bin...
>
> The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not
> repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=...
> but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load.
>
> Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where
> it is hanging.
>
> I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no
> luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to
> convert to Linux.).
>
> -bucky pope
>
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