Becuase you cannot use a Rescue disk if your MBR becomes corrupted, I would
consider using LILO the only safe solution.
Marcus
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> From: Doug Hughes[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Contura 420C
>
>
> >
> >>
> >> 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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