Debian bug report logs - #1258
Loading Bug

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Subject: Re: Bug#1258: Loading Bug 
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From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>

Please create a bootdisk from the file
ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/pre-release/patched_syslinux_bootdisk.gz
Try to boot that, and please write back to me and tell me if it works.

	Thanks

	Bruce Perens
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:12:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Taylor <BKT19@cas.ALBANY.edu>
Subject: Loading Bug
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After about a year of an on again/off again relationship with Linux I 
convinced the guys at work to try Linux an the machine at work. We 
had successfully had a Slackware release running great but noone was 
interested at that time. This time around I had read a lot of 
information on the debian release and was looking forward to 
installing it instead of slackware as it seemed MUCH more organized.
I got all the pre-release documentation and the base system. The 
installation went great and the section in the documentation about 
managing filesystems on different partitions was VERY helpful. During 
the install I created a boot floppy to use until I was confident on 
installing LILO. We went to boot off this floppy and all that was 
printed to the screen was:

Loading.
Ax:1010
Bx:1010
Cx:1010
Dx:1010
which kept repeating ad infinitum.
We are using a Digital 486 pc running at 66Mhz
with 2 ide hardrives hda is a quantum 235 meg drive
and hdb is a seagate 850 meg drive they both work great in dos and 
during the setup Linux recognized the the large hdb correctly.
we intended to setup debian on hdb2-8 which was partitioned following 
the examples in the pre-release docs.We have two 1.44  3.5" floppies 
that we used for the install. We booted of of fd0: and passed 
ramdisk root=/dev/fd1 to the kernel to start the install.
We also used /dev/fd0 to create the boot floppy.
I looked and the bugs index on http://www.debian.org but didnot see
any bug that might be this. Sorry for repeating it if you already 
have a report on it. We went ahead and installed  a slackware 
release and are having no problems with it. So I am confused as to 
why one type of linux would boot yet the other won't. Any info you 
have on this would be appreciated as we are would still like to try 
and get debian running. Thanks
 Brian
 
Brian K. Taylor
Technical Services Group Coordinator
Phone (518) 442-4296 
Fax   (518) 442-4723

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