[97181] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Boot failed!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 1 18:13:04 1998
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 18:11:55 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Thomas L Dickson wrote:
> 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.
Look in your computer's BIOS for a setting that supports OS's that
don't do PNP. Turn that on. The BIOS should then set up your
PNP cards so Linux can find them.
If there is no such setting, remove the ethernet card, install RedHat,
shutdown and reinstall the ethernet card, and see if you can then
boot from the hard drive.
>
>
> - Thanks
> Tom
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