[NTLUG:Discuss] RH 7.1

[Josh Miller]

I have an old 166 mhz.  Tried putting Mandrake 7.2 on it, and due to a 
slight oversight on my part It fluked, just as I found my RH 7.1 CD.

So I put the Redhat on as its just a tad more new.

The redhat install will not load the kernel.  and boot disks made on my PC 
can't load the 2.4.2 kernel that is with Redhat.

With a boot disk, the image is loading and interupted with a Boot failure, 
insert new disk.

Put the HD in my PC and installed linux on it thinking it was something in 
the Bootdisk Kernel.  When booting on the 166  The Bzimage decompresses, and 
starts loading when it just halts.

Does anyone know of this as a Kernel problem?  is there a sure fire way yo 
build a kernal with all worstcase compatability config, with out just 
looking thru it all?

The Drive does have the Westerndigital LBA support for non LBA MBs even 
though the PC does support LBA. ( hey free extra PC can't help everything)  
But I would think if that was the problem, then it woudln't have worked on 
my PIII.

I can just go back to Mandrake, but I hate to not know why it is failing.

I can use the Mandrake "linux rescue" option to mount the drives to get to 
the drives, but so far as I know, nothign shoulc be logged that early in the 
process.

Any ideas, or experience would help.

Thanks,
   Josh Miller

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