This is sad.. I'm replying to myself.. :-) Anyways.. For the heck of it I
decided to reformat the disk and load the boot.img onto it again.. It boots
completly now.. Go figure..
Don
> 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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