[plug] Strange stuff with antique hardware

[David Campbell]

Does anyone have any thoughts on the following:

a) Debian floppy taking 3 mintues to load a kernel
b) LILO fails at "LI", even with "linear" option

This is for the old 33DX486 I mention earlier. I am about to try another 
mainboard and a different IO card (to solve the floppy problem).

I configured the HDD on a P166, transplanted the drive and kept the same 
HDD settings. I can boot into Linux with the "rescue" floppy and poke around 
but with such a slow boot time it is a pain.

According to the docs the "LI" failure is either bad disk geometry or moving 
the boot.b file. I know that I haven't touched boot.b so there is something 
strange going on here.

David Campbell


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