On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: > i've had the dubious pleasure of running into the same problem on > a variety of machines (mainly because the hardware supplier seems > completely unable to provide the same motherboards in each new batch of > machines). 486 motherboards are starting to be hard to get...a shame, > 486s or amd 586s are perfectly suited to what i'm builing these boxes > for (dialin servers for staff & students at various schools)...Pentium > would be overkill and significantly more expensive. > > There have been a few pentium boxes. award bios. > > The 6 most recent boxes (5 built and installed on site since monday - a > busy week!) have all been AMD 586-133 machines. Some with Award bios, > some with Phoenix bios, and some with the bletcherous AMI graphical > bios. All motherboards have been PCI. Some Plug'n'Pray. > > MBR hasn't worked on *any* of them. > > In other words there is such a complete failure to work on any of the > machine I've tried it on that I must admit to being a little surprised that > MBR works for anyone. But, nobody else seems to be reporting any problems > with it so it must be something i'm doing. > > I remember that MBR used to work on the first debian 0.97 or was it 1.1 > machines that I built. I suspect it may be the Maximise partition option > in cfdisk. Partly because it's the only thing i can think of which might > be doing weird things to the partition table and partly because i > remember that i used to use normal fdisk which didn't have that > option. I'll try it without this in a few days.
If you want a consistant supply of hardware, WE can do it. :) I work for SOAR Technology. We only deal with two motherboards for 486's... (each from two different distributors, both local to us.) One is a vesa local. and the other is pci. (vesa hard to get) We love the AMD cpu's.. about 95 bucks a piece for the pci boards. :) Quantity pricing is available. Anyway, it might just be the maximise.. I ran a maximized partition on a system with MBR, with version .99 of debian, that I upgraded to 1.1.? so.. hmm.. I sold that system though... (it was a nameserver on my network, and didn't really want it because it was slow.) :) I'm going to install a p133 server with debian 1.2 in a day or so. (deciding on what hard drive to through in it) I'll try the MBR with maximise. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]