I had different, but similar problems installing Mandrake 7 on an Cyrix 
machine of mine.  I finally just took the HD out and used it as the primary 
in another machine.  After the install, but before the first real boot, I 
took the HD out and put it back in my old machine.  It booted up fine and 
started auto-detecting my devices.

The Mandrake box says it must have 32 megs to install, which I didn't 
have.  I think that was the problem, but I don't know for sure.  RH may 
have the same problem.




At 05:56 PM 8/10/00 , Don Harrop wrote:
>I've got an old 486 VLB board with 24megs of RAM I want to stick Linux on..
>I can't even get it to boot completly off of the install floppy though.
>After the initial menu I choose text mode install and sometime during
>Loading initrd.img it bombs out and says Boot Failed: please change disks
>and press a key to continue..  Pushing a key will get it to try and boot
>again but the same thing happens..  I tried it first with a boot disk from a
>RH6.1 CD then from a RH6.2 CD.  Same thing..  Any ideas?
>
>Don
>
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