"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi again,
>
> No luck with any of the suggestions. I also tried this with the released
> 9.0 Dolphin. When I boot with the floppy cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 image it
> almost immediately says "Boot failed" after the "SYSLINUX ..." text.
Hum, many times this is due to an hardware error on the floppy;
are you sure your floppy is fine? have you tried with another
floppy?
> When booting from the CD with
>
> boot: linux noauto
>
> it loads the image and hangs again after it wrote "Ready.".
Hum, what is printed before "Ready"? This is too little
information..
> I should correct the hanging behavior I described when I boot from the
> 9.0 CD: The screen clears with just a blinking cursor when the initial
> progress bar has finished - not even Ctrl-Alt-Del works after this.
Hum, that should be the moment when the kernel loads :-(.
I think our kernel is not very well tested on very old processors
like yours, it's perfectly possible it has bugs with plain old
Pentiums now :-(. But we don't have pentiums here to test.. So
the 2.2.19 should mostly work for you...
> The Pentium 200 MMX sits on an Intel TC430HX motherboard (no USB) and I
> have had Windows 2000 Adv Server installed and now SNF7.2 recently
> installed and still running on this PC with this hardware configuration
> (96 MB RAM, Adaptec 2940, Pioneer SCSI CD, Intel PCI network card,
> Netgear PCI network card, Matrox Mystique G200, Quantum IDE harddisk).
>
> Is this a i586 issue or a hardware/motherboard issue? I have no other
I'm not kernel expert and it's hard to guess without much
information but I'd favor a problem with this old processor.
> plain Pentium (i586) PC where I can try the 9.0 on. Has anyone else
> succeeded to install the 9.0 on an "old Pentium"?
PS : can you quote the messages the right way, a.k.a putting your comments
after my sentences? it would be easier to follow the thread
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
