Hi, Fortunately I got you mail an hour before the install and I was able to try your ideas!
Copying ldlinux.sys resulted in "not a boot device" (or somesuch) error. Running the latest syslinux on /dev/fd0 resolved the problem. Thanks! On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 05:38:21PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:53:19AM -0400, Chris Fearnley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line > > option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the > > same way (see below)). > > > > This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only reports 16M to Linux. > > When I try to correction this on the boot disk command-line, I get the > > following crash: > > linux mem=128M (manually entered at boot disk prompt) > > Loading root.bin........... > > Loading Linux....... (I didn't record number of dots here or above) > > Decompressing Linux... (exactly 3 dots) > > > > crc error > > > > -- System halted > > > > Using the March boot disks this procedure works (boy am I glad I kept a > > copy of those March boot disks!!!). > > > > And using lilo (with the same kernel as is on the boot disk), the mem=128M > > line works (I even built a kernel and ran lots of memtests to verify that > > the memory works fine. It does.) > > > > Conclusion: the April boot disks are broken wrt the mem kernel command line > > option. > > That may be syslinux fault. Can you copy the file ldlinux.sys > from March rescue disk to April rescue disk and try again? > Or even better, install syslinux_1.37 (now in incoming), put the April > rescue disk in the floppy disk drive, run "syslinux /dev/fd0" (or fd1) > and try installing with that disk, to see if the bug has been fixed. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Internet21 Network Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]