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Sindi and others, thanks much.  I could use some more help.

> Slackware 10.2 bare.i kernel supports OLD and NEW Promise controllers. 
> dmesg revealed that I have an 'old' model (PDC20262)

Oh, I forgot  to write down what mine is - but when booting, it says 
something about copyright? 1999-2001? version 2.0.1?
 
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/2.4.31/bzimavsp.431

I downloaded it to C:\baslin\

GRUB is installed to the MBR of an HD connected to an IDE on the 
Promise controller.
(no HDs are connected to the IDEs on the motherboard, but two CD-ROMs 
are)

C:\boot\grub\menu.lst reads, in part:

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default 0
timeout 5

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
boot

title DSL4x
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/linux24 quiet root=/dev/hde1 fromhd=/dev/hde1 vga=normal 
norestore dma frugal write
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

title BL 3.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /baslin/bzimavsp.431 root=/dev/hda7 rw

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When I boot, and choose the "BL 3.5",
it goes pretty far, and eventually stops, saying

"Bummer, could not run '/etc/rc': Exec format error."

And, I think, invites me to press  Enter

So I do, and see a  (bash?  ash?) prompt.

df shows nothing, and there's no /etc/ mtab

But if I say

--------

.  /etc/rc

--------

it seems to go to a normal system:   df shows drives mounted, fdisk -
l shows partitions, and so forth.


Thanks,

Sheldon
215-842-0863