Re: Unable to boot PC using RH6.0

["Atul Sowani" <asowani cvimail cv com>]

  My bios is older than this, it doesn't have APM option. Is it true that
RH6.0 *requires* RAM >= 8MB? It is against the whole philosophy of Linux!
Atul.

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, HolyLiaison wrote:

> Go in to your BIOS and turn off APM (Advanced Power Management)
> It should work.
> 
> -HolyLiaison
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Atul Sowani <asowani cvimail cv com>
> Newsgroups: linux.redhat.install
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 4:52 AM
> Subject: Unable to boot PC using RH6.0
> 
> 
> >   Linux Gurus! Please help!
> >   I have a (fairly) old PC: 386DX, 4MB RAM, VGA, 4BG HDD and a 40X CD
> > drive. At the moment I am using ancient Slackware Linux 1.2.3. I am trying
> > to load Redhat linux 6.0 from CD (which I acquired recently). Since I can
> > not boot my PC from CDROM drive, I created boot disk image on floppy and
> > tried to boot. While booting all my hardware was properly detected and
> > there were not error messages. But my PC always hang in between the boot
> > process with following error message:
> > RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> >
> >   I am unable to figure out what's wrong. Can somebody help me?
> > Thanks,
> > Atul.
> >
> >
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