[ale] Strange problem

[Brian]

Have you tried resetting the MBR? Boot from a boot
disk and use something like fdisk to reset your MBR
records. 

It depends on what distro you're using but some don't
properly rewrite your boot records even if you
indicate it during installation.

Also, check your drive's setting on your bios. (ie.
you have the right primary/slave drive selected.)

-brian 


--- William Bagwell <rb211 at nelson.tds.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:38 pm, Irv Mullins wrote:
> > I've got an older pc that I thought I would set up
> to experiment with
> > networking. I tried Mdk 7.1 thru 9.1, RH 7.1, SuSE
> 6.4, Knoppix,
> > and FreeBSD 4.7. ALL failed to load, hanging up
> the computer with
> > "loading initrd.img" message or "loading vmlinuz"
> messages - IOW,
> > right at the start. I tried several CD drives.
> >
> > However, Slack 4.0 and Win 98 loaded without a
> hitch, and run fine.
> > Anyone know what the problem could be? Processor
> (Cyrix 6x86MX)
> > not compatible with the other versions mentioned?
> 
> Have you tested the RAM?  Had one recently that
> would install 98SE but 
> not Mdk 8.0 or 9.0 turned out bad memory was the
> main problem.
> -- 
> William
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