[NTLUG:Discuss] now Ive done it...[the neverending story]

[Bug Hunter]

  OK. this makes more sense.  I have had older BIOS or incompatible hard 
disk drives cause this problem.  My recommendation is to put the sim back
in and make several boot disks.  Always boot off of a floppy.  Either that
or upgrade your BIOS or motherboard.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, alh wrote:

> >
> >   try re-installing.  Did it boot from floppy before when the second dimm
> > was in there?
> 
> I reinstalled it, moved it around, pulled it out and still...it either hangs
> on "Freeing unused kernel memory" or the various INIT errors mentioned
> before
> ...but it will still boot from the floppy so I tried to make my own bootdisk
> after using the stock boot to get up.
> mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.14
> 
> and this succeeded in making a boot disk with my kernel
> this disk also booted my machine
> 
> I also tried to compile a new kernel and install it
> the compile and install went fine
> but it still boots the same
> 
> 
> is this related?
> diskdrake complains about a couple of sectors overlaping
> this does not sound good to me
> how could it happen
> 
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