[RULE] Re: My 486 won't boot

[Daniel O'Neill]

Ok so heres the update: MSDOS 5.0 installed (this is a means to an end, it
is not me retreating!) MuLinux installed on that partition, RedHat still
not booting! I'm about to get a sledge-hammer, details further down.

On the jumpers settings: The CDROM was set to slave and there doesn't
appear to be any jumpers on the hard drive. The HDD is hard to get to but
I checked it out with a mirror and couldn't find jumpers where you
normally expect them to be. Trying not to sound like a moany bitch,
but is this one worth chasing up, the HDD is in an akward place.

I have tried various hardware cofigs. With CDROM witout HDD and vica
verca, no joy. Unfortunatly there is only one card slot on the
motherboard, so my options there are limited aswell.

Now the small bit of progress I have made:
MSDOS 5.0 doen't recognize the CDROM but MuLinux and Tom's do.
1st Tom's root-boot:
    Mounted both floppy and cd
    For the floppy:
    ls reports that vmlinuz is present. (this is the install program,
    right?)
    vmlinuz returns: "vmlinuz not found"

    For the CDROM:
    Same story, tried autorun and it returns "autorun not found"
    I found vmlinuz in the isolinux directory

2nd MuLinux:
    Mounted both floppy and cd
    For the floppy:
    running vmliuz returns: " vmlinuz: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected "

    For the CDROM:
    vmlinuz returns " vmlinuz: premission denied "
    auto run returns:
        " exec: /usr/bin/redhat-cdinstall-helper: not found "
    I went looking for this file on the cd and haven't been able to find
    it (yet!)

A friend recommended that I try to adjust the scripts to deal with the
syntax error, I tought that this was a little beyond my abilities. One
quick look at the file vmlinuz in wordpad confirmed my suspicions! Does
this mean I have to decomplie it if I want to mess with it. I think I
have a decompiler in the shed next to the kango-hammer!!!
     Anybody got any suggestions as to how I could proceed? MuLinux is
running off of a DOS partition and booting from a floppy, would it help
running vmlinuz if I cloned MuLinux? I tried it allready and it got messy,
I'm just wonderin if it's a good idea before I have another go at it.

Daniel O'Neill

'You can put a cat in an oven but that doesn't make it a biscuit'




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