Re: Couldn't boot from boot floppy

[Himanshu Sharma <himanshu@ee.iitb.ac.in>]

hi

Well see to it that you have not enabled the memory_hole at 16 MB in 
bios..
this might be the reason as your hardware is old and earlier cards needed 
that..

hth ,

Himanshu 

> 
> Well, if it means anything to you, I just recently installed Redhat 7.2
> on a 486 with 20MB ram using a floppy to boot(whereby linux then detects
> the cdrom).  I don't know the cause of your problems, but maybe its not
> low memory.
> 
> -- Kashif
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 14:48, Usman S. Ansari wrote:
> > Try Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4 or combination of Alt and ctrl key and funstion key. Redhat
> > atleast gives you 3 or 4 consoles. The message on the other console may give you clue.
> > Usman
> > --- Hong Hsu <honghsu@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > >   Boris,
> > > 
> > >    Thanks.   I couldn't issue #dmesg command as there is only one console.   I also tried boot:
> > > linux mem=32M as
> > > the machine has 32 MB memory.  That didn't work either.   I think the boot floppy didn't even
> > > reach that point to
> > > process boot options because of failure on /sbin/loader.   The boot floppy was created from
> > > redhat 7.3 distro.
> > > 
> > >   This is really frustration,
> > >    -Hong
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Boris Bezlaj wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:04:52AM -0400, Hong Hsu wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I tried to install Linux server with minimum packages.  Because I have
> > > > > old cdrom (6 year old) drive which can not be set up in
> > > > > the BIOS for visiting before hard drive,  I tried to use boot floppy to
> > > > > start first.  However, every time boot from boot floppy the message
> > > > > show:
> > > > > ...
> > > > > running install...
> > > > > running /sbin/loader
> > > > > install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> > > >
> > > > could this mean not enough physical RAM ? try switching consoles(if any) for kernel messages
> > > ('dmesg' command)
> > > >
> > > > > ...
> > > > > Does anyone has clue what is going on?
> > > > >
> > > > > I also tried several options:
> > > > > boot: linux sda=cdrom lowres
> > > > > boot: linux sda=/dev/cdrom lowres
> > > > > boot: linux rescue
> > > > > boot: linux lowres noprobe
> > > > >
> > > > > none of them works.    Is there any way to work around?  Thanks,
> > > > > -Hong
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what distribution you are using.. maybe you should try boot/root
> > > > floppy from some other distro. Most distributions have their own set of
> > > > floppies.
> > > >
> > > > Also note that you might have problems with 8MB RAM or less..
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > With best regards,
> > > >
> > > >                 Boris B.
> > > 
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> > > 
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