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Re: Boot failed!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Sun Nov 1 18:09:40 1998
Reply-To: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 18:07:24 -0500
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Boot failed means that there's an error in the image file. In essence.. it's
a bad boot disk. raw. a new one off the CD.
If you want to add a new adapter, you don't need to reinstall... just edit
config files and stuff to make it look for the adapter at bootup.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas L Dickson <bombcar420@juno.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 4:32 PM
Subject: Boot failed!
>I am trying to install Linux on my 486 dx2 66. I have installed it
>before (red hat 5.1) but want to reinstall so that I can set up my new
>network card. I am trying to use a D-Link DE-220P PnP. I have dos drivers
>for it, but when I boot off of the Linux Install floppy, it says,
>initrd.img, then 16 periods, and then boot failed. What do I have to do
>to get the card working? If I could configure it without reinstalling,
>that would be helpful. I am trying to make this computer into a server
>for a MAC and three or four Windoze boxes in my dorm.
>
>
>- Thanks
> Tom
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