>
>>
>> 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.
>
As a followup to my own post, I did finally get lilo to work, so I can
boot it now. I set lilo to the extended partition wherein lies the
linux root and swap partitions. I did need to build a custom kernel
in order for this to work though. FYI - I'm using debian.
However, as a reaffirmation, I was never able to get any floppy disk
or other generic kernel to boot my compaq except by using loadlin.
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