Edvard Wikstr�m wrote:
>
> Hejsan Kaj!
>
> Now the problem I have is that I get nothing but a black screen. No promt no
>nothing. Just when I boot the machine and pass the HD detection, the machine starts
>reading the floppy, but I do not get the Mandrake screen or a prompt. I just lose the
>monitor, the monitor gets ofline, it gets no signal from the computer. I tried anyway
>and typed <linux -fb> and hoped for the best, but no luck. I get the feeling that it
>doesn�t got the driver for my graphic-card or monitor. I even tried the "other.img"
>for older drivers but it didn�t work. By the way its not a CD-RW. Other ideas??
> /Edvard
Hmm... Well Edvard, here I have to ask you a very silly questions - no
offence intended !
How did you create the boot-floppy ? - I suppose here, that you did it
from Windows, 'cause that's the way most people do it, considering the
fact that it's practically impossible to purchase a PC here in
Scandinavia without that virus pre-installed. Now, simply copying the
boot-image from the CD to floppy won't work, because this only puts some
bits into a FAT (DOS/windows) filesystem on the floppy. The floppy needs
to be "raw" to be bootable. To accomplish that, you must use a special
gadget, called "rawrite", located on the CD in "dosutils\rawrite.exe"
(in dos/windows-notation). Here's how :
* insert the CDROM, then open the icon "My Computer", right click
on the CDROM drive icon and select "Open"
* go into the "dosutils" directory and double-click on the
"rawwritewin" icon
* insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive
* select "D:\images\cdrom.img" in the "Image File" field (assuming
that
your CDROM drive is "D:", otherwise replace "D:" as needed)
* select "A:" in the "Floppy Drive" field then click on "Write".
To begin the installation, insert the CDROM in the drive, as well as the
boot floppy if necessary, then restart the computer.
OK - If all this is trivial to you, this is a newbie-list, remember ? -
That aside, if you've already fabricated the floppy correctly and it
doesn't boot, please return to the list and we'll try to walk you trough
from here. It would be nice to have further information about your
system, though : especially your harddisk-setup (is a
dos/windows-partition already present ?, do you want to preserve it ?,
how many GB does it contain ?, is it an IDE or a SCSI disk ?). What's
the output from "fdisk" (if it's there) ?
Edvard, I think your problem is of common interest, so I've taken the
liberty to publish this thread to the list. Some people here know more
than somewhat about real operating systems !
Kaj Haulrich
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