Re: Newbie problem: "Boot failure" when installing RH5

[Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman]

One thing I've always found is that NT gets in the way of creating 
bootdisks with Slackware, and I imagine RedHat's the same way. 
NT (AFAIK) doesn't allow programs, especially DOS software, to
get at the hardware the way RAWRITE needs to.  (Someone shoot me
if I've got it all wrong.)

If you can scrounge up a bona-fide MS-DOS (or Win95) 3.5" bootdisk
with CD-ROM drivers (if it's a newer, >6x speed, your best bet is
to find the file AOATAPI.SYS on the internet; try
http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no)
and MSCDEX.EXE and do the following:

[CONFIG.SYS]
DEVICE=AOATAPI.SYS /D:MSCD001

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]
MSCDEX /D:MSCD001

Now you should have a working CD-ROM drive and an A:\ prompt.  Try this:

D:   (replace with your CD-ROM drive letter)
CD DOSUTILS
RAWRITE
Answer D:\IMAGES\BOOT.IMG and A: respectively, sit back, and cross your
fingers.  =)


> I'm new to the list, and the world of Unix/Linux in general.  I  picked up
> Macmillan's package for Linux 5 at the local Best Buy, and attempted an
> install for the first time.  I created the boot.img and supp.img disks as
> instucted and and got an error message: "Boot failure: change disks and
> press any key".  I've been through the list archive, and the knowledge base
> on the WWW page, and have found this problem mentioned, but no answers
> (except, copy the RH CDROM .img files to the HD and rawrite.exe them from
> there...tried it...doesn't work.)
> 
> I'm running WinNT4 Workstation on the same drive with the NTFS filesystem
> (could this be my problem?), on a P133 Intel system, with NEC CDR-273 and a
> Fujistu 2.5 meg IDE harddrive.  The partition I made for Linux was created
> with the WinNT partitioning program in the setup.  That partition is not
> formated as far as I know.
> 
> One interesting aside (or maybe it's somewhere at the root of the problem):
> WinNT/Control Panel/SCSI identifies my HD, CDR and my IDE Connor tape drive
> as SCSI.  They are most definitely IDE.


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