[plug] Linux halting at bootup

Peter Wright pete at cygnus.uwa.edu.au
Wed Nov 3 13:58:22 WST 1999


On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:28:42PM +0800, Roob, Andrew wrote:
> Gudday all
> 
> I have long wanted to try my hand at Linux and have now finally got
> around to setting up a box .. I have a P100 with 16Mg and a 1.6Mg HDD
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^
> (what can I say .. its all spare parts ;) ..

Please tell me that's a typo and you meant to say 1.6 gig HDD :-/.

> Thanks
> Andrew

Sorry I can't shed any real light on your problem though.... My first
thought would be a f*cked up hard drive - can you install anything else on
it and boot from it? Did you tell the linux installer to do a check on the
disk when formatting it?

Pete.
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