From: euafra@euas20c01ericsson.se (Anders.Franzen) Subject: Re: Help! Can't boot! Date: 14 Feb 1992 15:31:14 GMT
In article <MdarfDu00awNMefWMD@andrew.cmu.edu>, cd2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Court Demas) writes:
>
>I've been trying to get linux to run on my Zeos 486, but I can't seem to
>get it to even boot up! When I boot up with the rawrited bootimage it
>just hangs after reading the disk for a second or two. When I tried
>rawriting from a PS/2 it would boot and then go into a loop displaying
>what looked like:
>
>ax 123
>bx 141
>cx 34235
>dx 0914
>
>
>or something like that - over and over again. Any suggestions???
>
>
>-court
>
>
>I have a Zeos 486/33, 8mb, 210mb IDE ctrl, 1.44/1.2mb drives
I had the same problems as above, a loop showin register values.
It seems I got the problem because I used floppydisks that
I've used before, ie. they were already formated, so I did not
bother doing that.
After formatting and then rawrite on a pair of 1.2mb it worked.
/Anders