<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>I'm sorry if I'm rehashing a problem that has allready been addressed, but my patience is wearing a little thin and I'm feeling a little out of my depth.</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm trying to set up a dual boot system. My 486's (affectionatly named Bob) BIOS is too old to allow CDROM boot. Systems details in the form of a msd report at <A href="http://www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~danj/Report.txt">www.netsoc.ucd.ie/~danj/Report.txt</A> Please note this report is somewhat misleading (a fact I hope to rectify soon) as it was made when I was running Win95 and taking up alot of space.</DIV>
<DIV>I have since formatted the hard disk, started running Win98, and partitioned the drive (c. 450Mb total) leaving about 200Mb for Lunix.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have availible to me RedHat 6.2 and 8.0.</DIV>
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<DIV>The only sucessfull boot so far has been Tom's root-boot. All others including Miniconda, Slinky, Slinky-Detect, Floppix and the boot images that came with the CD's and some from RedHat errata have failed in the same manner. Incedetially installations of Suze (8.1 I think) have failed in the same manner. </DIV>
<DIV> The 486 starts up, shows me a dialog box with some rudimentary hardware and BIOS settings, then the CDROM drive LED blinks, followed by what I assume is the machine acessing the A-drive (incl. relevant LED flashing and accompaning sounds), and then the screen displays the message: boot failed. The machine then just hangs, while I curse and tear more of my hair out!</DIV>
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<DIV>At this stage I'm looking at small Linux's like muLinux, to see if I can use them, that and I'm looking into using RAWRITE on the 486 instead of P3's to see if that'll make a difference.</DIV>
<DIV>It seems to me that RULE should work but doesn't and I'd rather not try to write my own boot disks! Am I missing something here? Is there some basic step I've overlooked?</DIV>
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<DIV>I'd be gratefull for any help, even if it's just pointing me to the relevant documentation or mail list archive.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Daniel O'Neill</DIV>
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