Re: Installing Linux

[Chris Albertson <calbertson logicon com>]

I suspect a bad floppy.  WHen you format the disk make sure it
formats with ZERO bad blocks.  Tell format to do the verify pass.
While you are at it make two disks.  See if they both have the
same problem. 

Peter Murphy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem loading Linux onto a 486 machine at work.  I get the following message:
> 
> Boot:
> Loading initrd.img.............
> Loading vmlinuz.........
> Uncompressing Linux..
> Pcibios_init:  BIOS32 Service Dir Structure at 0x000e8130
> Pcibios_init:  BIOS32 Service Dir Entry at 0xf3824
> Pcibios_init:  BIOS32 Service Dir Structure at 0x000f0130
> Invalid operand:0000
> Cpu: 0
> EIP: 0010[<0000001b>]
> Eflags: 00010006
> Etc
> Etc
> Etc
> Idle task may not sleep
> Idle task may not sleep
> Idle task may not sleep
> Idle task may not sleep
> Idle task may not sleep
> ..
> . ..
> 
> The output from msd.exe (while I still had DOS on the machine) was:
> 
> Computer:
> 
> American Megatrends
> Bios Ver  1.00.03.AF1
> Bios cat IBM pc/AT
> BIOS ID Bytes  FC 0100
> BIOS date 9/24/93
> Processor  486DX
> Internal Math Coprocessor
> Bus type: ISA/AT/ Classic Bus
> DMA controller
> Cascaded IRQ
> Bios data segment:  None
> 
> I made the boot disk using rawrite from a Redhat 5.1 CD.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,    Thanks   Peter

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