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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Problem starting up
  • Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:51:20 -0700 (PDT)

Boy, do I feel like an idiot.

I forgot I took off RAM for some school subject and lost it, when I ran memtest, it turns out it only has 4MB of RAM. I'll have to go with the DOS version.

Sorry and thank you very much.

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
Message from Steven
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> I tried with 2 more floppies, same result.
> I can start it up on other computers without
> problem with the same floppies.

Right, that clarifies things. Definitely not
the floppies.

> In this particular computer, there doesn't seem
> to be an error (or at least I don't get any message),
> it just stops at that line

It sounds to me like it doesn't have enough good RAM.
The floppy version of BL3 needs 12mb or more.

IIRC, you said the computer has 16mb RAM. Are you
absolutely sure it is all good? The automatic RAM
count at POST (system startup) is not adequate.
It is not uncommon for Linux to trip over RAM faults
that DOS ignores. I suggest you run a comprehensive
RAM checking utility on that computer. I recommend
memtest: http://www.memtest.org/

Several of us here use it.

Cheers,
Steven


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