Baslinux mailing list

[baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org]

Hi,
I'm new to BasicLinux. I can boot BL 3.50 (from bl3-50fd.zip) on an AST 
Ascentia P series laptop from floppy. I have installed it to HD 
(/dev/hda1). It boots normally from HD but right at the end when it has 
printed issue it hangs. It prints "...to activate cdrom/network/pcmcia." 
and then hangs. It does not print "Please press Enter...". It doesn't 
respond to any keys, except Ctrl+Alt+Delete (so it is not compleatly 
dead). However, I can boot from HD without hanging if I first boot from 
floppy and enter "hd root=/dev/hda1". This problem remains even if I do 
some changes to the startup script (/etc/rc). I also tried to install it 
to /dev/hda2, but the results was the same, so I don't think it is a 
disk error.

Any suggestion what I could try to make it boot from HD.

I have a CD-ROM unit I would like to use, but it fits in the same slot 
as the FDD.

(BTW I think it's great I can use this old laptop with the PCMCIA 
network card. The other small linux distributions i tried (Blueflops, 
DeLi Linux, and FREESCO) couldn't handle it.)

Regards,
// Mikael Bonnier
----
// Web: http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/
// E-mail/MSN: mikaelb AT df.lth.se
// ICQ # 114635318
// Mob/SMS/MMS: +46730307498
// Phone: +4646323208
// Skype: mikael4u
// PeerCall: 700-100-2180