Similar but different huh??  Sounds like an oxymoron to me.. ;-)  If that's
the case I think it dumb to require that much memory for an install,
especially in text mode.. :-(  I was wondering it the VLB was screwing it
up..  It boots fine with any DOS stuff..

Don


>
> 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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