Hi there,
I've been strugling for some time with booting Elks on 286 motherboard.
Symptons were booting up to ..........: and than a freeze.
The boot gave one error but resumed after it. I believe now that any error
during boot is fatal while it looks if it recovers from the error.
The cause of ALL trouble was in the floppy ribbon cable..... :-{{
Because I was able to boot on an other system I did a step for step
replace of the components with the hardware that didn't, it was the cable,
after replacement all boots well.
regards
Kees