Aargh!!! My fingers got ahead of my brain again!
I meant using loadlin was the only safe solution...
Fumbling,
Marcus
> ----------
> From: Marcus Blankenship[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 1:18 PM
> To: Linux Laptops
> Subject: RE: Contura 420C
>
> Becuase you cannot use a Rescue disk if your MBR becomes corrupted, I
> would
> consider using LILO the only safe solution.
>
> Marcus
>
>
> > ----------
> > 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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