it sounds like you might have a bad boot floppy. try making a new one
from the boot floppy image on your Red Hat CD, using either rawrite (dos)
or dd (linux).
-matt
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Matthew Nelson
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On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marius Schamschula wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using various flavors (Debian on x86 and mk on PPC) for the last
> four years. The hard drive my gateway P5 machine (a 3GB Western Digital) has
> started dropping inodes on a regular basis. I got tired of running fsck
> every time I boot, so I got a new 6.4GB drive. I took that occasion to go to
> upgrade to RedHat 5.2. Now I can't even get to the point of partitioning the
> drive for Linux. I'm currently stuck in M$-DOS. The setup floppy disk starts
> loading the kernal, but gets about a third of the way through (judging the
> the dots), and the exits with the error: kernal load failed. I have had the
> same problem with a gateway PII-300 with a 8.4GB drive at work.
>
> Being used to Mac hardware, I have to admit that I'm a little unfamiliar
> with the details of the Intel BIOSes. I had no problem getting both mklinux
> and LinuxPPC on a 4.5GB drive for my G3 at home...
>
> What am I missing? Any hints?
>
> TIA
>
> Marius
>
> Marius Schamschula, optical physicist, mac, and network coordinator
>
> The Center for Applied Optical Sciences: http://www.caos.aamu.edu/
> Department of Physics, Alabama A & M University
>
>
