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Hello, Steven, hello Sindi,
 
Thanks for your help, I read all your suggestions and that helped me to get a 
little deeper in the problem.
Yes, I used to have an old XT on my desk, and now I have a PENTIUM 133 mother
Gigabyte GA586S Rev1.22C Mainboard Socket-7 & Pentium 133, 
3xISA, 5xPCI, 4xRAM-Sockel 72Pin, 3xIDE Socket. I have 16 Mb RAM installed, 
and the ST238. It is very old, but I had it on my XT and, as I don´t plan to 
use it again, I thought It would be usefull for beginning with linux. Here in 
Argentina an old IDE drive is almost so expensive as a new 80 Gb unit, about 
50 dollars, so perhaps I buy a new one for my Pentium3 in the future and use 
for Linux the 40Gb unit I run now. I don´t know anyway how much would the 
P133 recognize from it...

I did all as suggested with the bzimage from slackware 7.1, in xt.i folder, 
and modified BOOT.bat. It runned a bit further and recognizes the ST238, but 
it halts when INITFS tries to execute what follows:

mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hda1'

mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hda2'

mount -t msdos /dev/hda3 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hda3'

mount -t msdos /dev/hda4 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hda4'

mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hdb1'

mount -t msdos /dev/hdc1 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hdc1'

mount -t msdos /dev/hdd1 /DOS  2>/dev/null
test -e /DOS/baslin/fs.img && break
umount /DOS  2>/dev/null
echo '/baslin/fs.img not found on /dev/hdd1'

I see that now Linux detects my Seagate, and it recognizes it as "xda" or 
"xda1". I am an absolute beginner to linux, but I worked woth some 
programming during Electronic Engineering, and I suppose it would stay 
something like "xda1" instead of "hda, hdb, hdc...". But I don´t know how it 
should mount the blocks of RAMDISK, so I didn't modified INITFS yet.

Thanks for your help again, I append some new images of my booting for 
illustration at http://www.esnips.com/web/caralb1-Varios

Cheers,

Carlos  


      
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