This might not be the easiest way but ... Try downloading tom's root/boot diskette (www.toms.net/rb) and see if the box will IPL from it.
If it does follow the instrucctions in the append I just made to the list ... Good luck. Bob Bucky Pope wrote: > > I have an old IBM PC that I'm trying to install from diskettes (no CD > drive). When I boot the rescue disk (most recent on the web) and hit > enter, I get the following message: > > Loading root.bin... > > The boot process then hangs with the diskette light on solid, does not > repond to c-t-a. I've tried commands like Linux hd=... > but that doesn't change anything since it's failing on the initail load. > > Is there some way to track the events of the load process to see where > it is hanging. > > I've played around with several BIOS setting, changed hdisks, but no > luck. The same rescue disk works on a new PC (not the one I want to > convert to Linux.). > > -bucky pope > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
