>
> Tearing my long, flowing hair out!
>
> Trying to install Red Had 5.2 on my Commpaq Contura 420C (12Mb,
>420Mb.) When I boot to the boot disk I get
>
> Loading initrd.img....Boot failed
>
> The floppy drive is fine, 'cause I can boot to a DOS diskette.
>The boot disk is fine, 'cause it works in another computer.
>
> Any ideas? Isn't this supposed to be easy?
>
> Oh, by the way, I'm new here. Please forgive any unintentional
>breach of etiquette.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>Bob
>
I've got a Compaq Contura 430c with the same problem. I never solved it
(though I spent days trying). I tried the tecra kernels, I tried other
kernels. I tried floppy=thinkpad. I posted to usenet. No resolution.
The only way I can boot it is using loadlin from dos. This isn't so bad,
though. Just edit autoexec.dos or autoexec.bat to run loadlin automatically
and it will boot right up.
(I cannot get lilo to work either - probably the result of some sort of LBA
issue. And don't even bother trying a boot floppy; they don't work either)
Anyway, loadlin works fine, though nothing else will. If you do get a proper
answer, let me know.
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