After several days I couldn't get on board, now I manage to get login. What happen was the boot
floppy is made from
#dd if=boot.img of=/dev/df0
I even tried second boot floppy. That didn't work. Then I manage to get a Windows machine and made
a boot floppy using rawrite utility. That works right away! Can't explain it.
Thank you for all suggestions, specially to Himanshu,
-Hong
Himanshu Sharma wrote:
> hi
>
> Well see to it that you have not enabled the memory_hole at 16 MB in
> bios..
> this might be the reason as your hardware is old and earlier cards needed
> that..
>
> hth ,
>
> Himanshu
>
> >
> > Well, if it means anything to you, I just recently installed Redhat 7.2
> > on a 486 with 20MB ram using a floppy to boot(whereby linux then detects
> > the cdrom). I don't know the cause of your problems, but maybe its not
> > low memory.
> >
> > -- Kashif
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 14:48, Usman S. Ansari wrote:
> > > Try Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4 or combination of Alt and ctrl key and funstion key. Redhat
> > > atleast gives you 3 or 4 consoles. The message on the other console may give you clue.
> > > Usman
> > > --- Hong Hsu <honghsu@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> > > > Boris,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks. I couldn't issue #dmesg command as there is only one console. I also tried boot:
> > > > linux mem=32M as
> > > > the machine has 32 MB memory. That didn't work either. I think the boot floppy didn't even
> > > > reach that point to
> > > > process boot options because of failure on /sbin/loader. The boot floppy was created from
> > > > redhat 7.3 distro.
> > > >
> > > > This is really frustration,
> > > > -Hong
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Boris Bezlaj wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:04:52AM -0400, Hong Hsu wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I tried to install Linux server with minimum packages. Because I have
> > > > > > old cdrom (6 year old) drive which can not be set up in
> > > > > > the BIOS for visiting before hard drive, I tried to use boot floppy to
> > > > > > start first. However, every time boot from boot floppy the message
> > > > > > show:
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > running install...
> > > > > > running /sbin/loader
> > > > > > install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> > > > >
> > > > > could this mean not enough physical RAM ? try switching consoles(if any) for kernel messages
> > > > ('dmesg' command)
> > > > >
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > Does anyone has clue what is going on?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I also tried several options:
> > > > > > boot: linux sda=cdrom lowres
> > > > > > boot: linux sda=/dev/cdrom lowres
> > > > > > boot: linux rescue
> > > > > > boot: linux lowres noprobe
> > > > > >
> > > > > > none of them works. Is there any way to work around? Thanks,
> > > > > > -Hong
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't know what distribution you are using.. maybe you should try boot/root
> > > > > floppy from some other distro. Most distributions have their own set of
> > > > > floppies.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also note that you might have problems with 8MB RAM or less..
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > With best regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Boris B.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > <Linux kernel:>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
> > > >
> > > >
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> #-himanshu
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