Re: Boot

[Dave Blears <incisor@central.cth.com.au>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:34:40AM -0800, aphro wrote:

> the problem is the kernel on the debian cd is too old to run on athlon,
> its probably running linux 2.2.12, i hear 2.0.36 works but if you use
> 2.2.x i believe you need 2.2.13 or newer.


slink/2.0.36 locks at detecting the ide controllers when i try an install on
an athlon 600 based system with an msi mainboard.

both freebsd 3.3 and sco openserver 5.0.5 install fine... sigh

> 
> only thing I can suggest is install to another machine and move the HD
> over..you can try to make your own boot/root disk but i've never tried it.
> 

i will be trying mkrboot today to see if i can get it going with 2.2.14


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Best Regards

Dave

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