Re: mega problem with linux -booting

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:28:42 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, sachin goyal wrote:

> I can't boot from the bootable redhat5 CD. Computer gets rebooted just
> after loading the kernel. I tried various tricks, booting from image
> (rawrite) on a floppy disk, from autoboot using loadlin , all get failed
> --- same error.
>
> At last i got a way, i installed WIN95(though i was not interested, but)
> and when i : rebooted in the computer in DOS mode from start menu of
> Win95- i was able to use loadlin to boot my kernel. I was happy

See if there's a newer BIOS available for your board. This looks like the
one which bit us; the keyboard wasn't properly initialised by the BIOS.

MAtthew.

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