From: ad737@Freenet.carleton.ca (Kevin Matassa) Subject: Re: Booting probs with SLS 0.99 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 23:31:22 GMT
In a previous article, ad737@Freenet.carleton.ca (Kevin Matassa) says:
>
>I have:
> - 33 MHZ TI 486 DLC with math copro
> - 4 MG RAM
> - UN-1072 I/O Card (Serial,parallel,game,hard disk, floppy)
> - Cirrus 1MG SVGA Card
> - 2 floppies
> - CrossLink Fax/Modem
> - 170 Quantum Disk
>
>My problem:
>
> On booting from the boot floppy I select the ramdisk option
>from LILO. It goes on identifying my hardware and then states that
>INIT: Version 2.0 is booting. The boot at this point hangs.
>
>There is local echo on the console, and my function keys for virtual
>terminals seem to work, but I do not get the SLS login prompt
>
>Help ?
>Thanks in advance
>--
>// Kevin Matassa
>// ad737@freenet.carleton.ca
>// Ottawa, Ont, Canada
Some further clues:
On slow (non-turbo) boot attempts I sometimes get errors to the effect:
"837: failed to reset". Yes my system has an 80837 math copro. Linux
recognizes this hardware on boot-up, even when the chip is disabled in
my BIOS.
It has been mentioned thay my a1 boot floppy may need to be re-written.
I have however used this floppy to boot other PC's. Is it possible that
I have a buggy boot floppy ?
Thanks again for your help!
-- // Kevin Matassa // ad737@freenet.carleton.ca // Ottawa, Ont, Canada