From: mtveg@rivm.nl (Erik Geertsema) Subject: Re: [A]: SLS a1 boot: floppy error 0x04 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 08:54:08 GMT
Gerhard Kircher (kircher@saruman.neuro.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: The probably most prominent reason for the 0x04 errors is an ST01/02
: 'SCSI' adapter. The solution to take the 'compact' keyword out of
: /etc/lilo/config. Many people have difficulties in achieving this,
: so here is one way to do it:
: The procedure will only work for the a1.3 disk, since there is no vi
: on the a1.5 image. The advantage is that it requires no running
: Linux. With a running linux, where we can mount the floppy, there are
: more possibilities.
: The first thing is to get this floppy booting:
: we can do this by doing one of the following:
: *) Take the ST0x out of the machine
: *) Take the ROM out of the ST0x
: now boot a1
: when we see LILO, press ScrollLock which gives us the boot prompt.
: At the prompt we type 'floppy'. ---- This is important since otherwise
: we would do all the changes on the ramdisk which obviously would
: have no effect.
: The disk should boot now.
: Log in as root.
: cd /etc/lilo
: vi config
: delete the line 'compact' with the command dd
: write the file and exit by :x<CR>
: /install
: should say something like added ramdisk
: added floppy
: added harddisk
: sync # !!!!! this is important
: turn off the machine
: We should have now have a floppy which boots with all nasty BIOSes,
: so we reinstall whatever hardware we previously removed and
: give it a try.
: Good Luck!
: Gerhard
Or you could switch TURBO off, seems to help, is just a tiny bit
simpler ;-)
Erik ( mtveg@rivm.nl )