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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Jason Chall wrote:

> So I managed to get BL3 installed on my 80 GB HD. However since the BIOS
Why do you want to use an 80GB HD in your 486 with BL3?  BL3 does not need 
more than 100th that much space - 100MB would be overkill unless you 
really plan to add a lot of programs to it.  You said you had another old 
hard drive (420MB?) which would make things much easier.


> doesn't recognize the HD I can't boot directly from it. I can boot the HD
> fine from a the BL3 floppy, but I don't want to have that attached for the
> final installation. I have an 8 MB Solid State Disk but I can't get Linux to
> recognize that but I have DOS installed on it. I can get loadlin to start
> linux on the HD using the zimage from the /boot directory on the HD but for
> some reason it asks me to "Insert floppy disk for loading into RAMDISK" If i

You are using the wrong .bat file to boot BL3 from with loadlin.  You 
should not be asked about floppy disks or RAMDISKs.  Where, and on which 
drive (do you still have the 85MB drive), did you put zimage?  If you use 
loadlin it is supposed to be in a 'baslin' directory with zimage, and if 
you installed BL3 to HD from the loop version of BL3 in the baslin 
directory, it should have created a hd.bat file in baslin.  Go to baslin 
and type hd to boot the hard drive BL3.

If you put zimage in /boot directory, this may mean you are booting not 
with loadlin but with lilo and that you installed the OTHER version of BL3 
- the 2-floppy version that uses lilo and installs to HD with lilo.
The 2-floppy version uses ramdisk.

Please reiterate the details of what you did to get BL3 on the 80GB drive 
- which zip file did you download for BL3?  Did you install it from a 
version on the hard drive, or on two floppy disks?

I suspect you have hybridized the two versions.

> just hit enter with nothing in the floppy drive it finishes booting no
> problem. How can I boot with loadlin without having any user intervention.

By no user intervention, do you mean you want to boot into BL3 every time 
you turn on the computer, or you want to boot into DOS and then type 
'boot' or 'hd' or the like and boot into linux without having to hit 
Enter?

> Thanks,
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of David Moberg
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:28 PM
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: RE: [BL] BL3 Floppy Version, Crashes when HD is attached
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>
>
> > Regarding how the SSD is accessed, according to the manual "The PCM-4862
> > features an internal Flash/ROM disk drive. This drive emulates a floppy
> disk
> > drive by using solid-state memory
> > chips".
>
> <---snip--->
>
> > Under linux the SSD does not show up under fdisk.
>
> Try various IDE drives, for instance
> fdisk /dev/hdb
> fdisk /dev/hdc
> and so on.
>
> If it doesn't show up that way, it may be useless, unless you
> can get it to work with SCSI/USB/other modules (those kinds of
> devices are not accessed with hda/hdb/hdc IDE device names, but
> instead SCSI device names such as sda/sdb).
>
> David
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