[plug] Linux halting at bootup

[Roob, Andrew]

On Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:58 PM, Peter Wright
[SMTP:pete at cygnus.uwa.edu.au] wrote:

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

Bugger ;) .. Yup .. 1.6Gb hdd

> 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?

All three of the drives test ok with dos and I got the installer to check
the drive ;)

Any other ideas ??

Cheers
Andrew