You probably have a bad clone NE2000 network card? I have seen problems
with those. You can enter the parameters for it at boot, that is, if it
was on port 0x300 irq 10, it would be something like:
boot: zImage eth0 iport=0x300 irq=10
(I probably have the syntax wrong, look in the BootPrompt howto...)
to make it not autoprobe.
There is probably a better way to fix it, but, I don't have a broken
ethernet card to use to make it fail... I have an open request for someone
to send me one of them so I can fix it... does anyone have one of these
broken NE2000 clones that they could ship me for a while, so I can figure
out which driver conflicts with it?
Anyway, if that doesn't fix it, or if you don't even have a network card,
then tell me more about the problem and what cards are in the machine.
-Tom
On 16 May 1999, Bud Rogers wrote:
> Date: 16 May 1999 19:08:13 -0500
> From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] boot hangs at SLIP
>
> Greetings from yet another newbie,
>
> I can't seem to get a floppy that will actually boot. I've tried
> installing both 1.7.118 and 1.7.134. And following a hint in the list
> archives, I tried the unpack; buildit; install. In each case, the
> installation to the floppy seems to be successful, but the floppy won't
> boot all the way. It loads the kernel image and starts the boot process,
> which seems normal enough til it gets to the line which starts with SLIP.
> At that point it just hangs.
>
> No doubt I'm missing something obvious. Could someone give me a hint?
>
> --
>
> Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
>
