>Finally decided to try Debian for the first time, and have run into a >major problem. When "loading Linux" the system hangs up. this happens >both when booting from a floppy and when rebooting from the hard drive. >if I run the boot.bat file on the CD the system comes alive and installs >the kernel, then procedes to let me configure the system. On reboot >things go ary. I have found several posts on newsgroups about this same >problem, but no answers. Thanks in advance. > >Jason Laster > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heres what I did. I had a windows 98 boot floppy. I copied command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat from the windows boot disk to a new floppy. copy the linux kernel and loadlin (.exe?) files (in /boot directory of the CD distribution) from your debian disks (if you installed from CD) onto the floppy with the other files (config.sys, etc.) change the first line of the autoexec.bat file to: a:\loadlin.exe a:\linux root=/dev/hda1 (if this is where root is). This may boot your machine. It worked for me. Booting from a floppy all of the time became a bit annoying, so I installed the 2.2.1 kernel source from the CDs and recompiled with APM. After this everything was fine. I boot from hard disk, and have alot of nice features working now , including standby, and suspend mode for advanced power management. Let me know how it goes, David.
