On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:35:50 -0500 Karl Bongers <kbongers at infinetivity.com> wrote: > > This sounds like a bootloader/bios/disk problem, the kernel is not > getting unpacked and started right. > > Are you trying to boot a parition that is past 8G? > Not sure how big a problem that is these days, just heard it can be. > How is it partitioned? Maybe look at harddrive options in the BIOS.. > > When you do an install, most distros allow you to make a bootdisk. > You should try one of these. They include a kernel that could > work around any sort of early BIOS/disk problem like this. > I have a 40GB EIDE HDD in this system. No different than I did in my Athlon 1GHz. Partitions are about the same size. 10GB for Windows, 30 GB (broken down into various sizes of course) for Linux. I was able to load and boot successfully on my old system. In fact the only time I went to Windows was to play a few games (EQ, EF2, WW2 Fightes mostly). I have the partitions broken down this way: hda1 - Windows 10 GB hda2 - / 750MB hda3 - swap 1.5GB hda4 - extended (rest of drive) hda5 - /usr 5 GB hda6 - /tmp 1.5 GB hda7 - /var 3GB I didn't create a /home yet, as I was trying to do a quick install to see if I could figure out the problems. Haven't had a chance to test again since my initial message on this. Remodeling the home tends to get in the way of such things. -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list