I have a problem installing Linux on my new Gateway 2000 PentiumII 233Mhz
machine. This happens when I use Redhat 4.2 and/or Slackware 3.3. When I
load up the boot disk, and it is scanning for devices, it tries to Probe
for PCI devices..And it prints a message about an error or how it can't
detect it or unknown device or something 3 times. It continues to load up
and prompts me for the second disk. When I enter in the second disk, it
will just no longer continue to load up anything, and the disk drive stops
loading linux. I tried to use Loadlin to load it up with the boot image on
the harddrive, and it loaded it up all the way (Slackware 3.3) until I
could prompt myself to enter root and run setup. Well, when I tried to run
fdisk on /dev/hda1, it said there is no such device. I guess it isn't
recognizing my hard drive. I have an UltraATA Hard drive. Could this be the
problem? It manages to detect my Toshiba 24X CD-ROM drive fine, and
everything else..But how can I install linux if it doesn't detect the
harddrive at all. :) Maybe I downloaded the wrong boot disks? I grabbed
bare.i and color.gz for Slackware 3.3. Any help or advice would be
appreciate, since I would love to see how fast Linux runs on this new
machine. :) Thanks! You can either respond on the mailing list or email me
at the address below. Thanks!!
Ryan LeCompte
ryan@net-connect.net
http://www.net-connect.net/~ryan