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List:       stampede-linux-user
Subject:    Re: Just joined..anyone around?
From:       John Carpenter <barak () ticon ! net>
Date:       1999-11-16 2:56:33
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I use bare.ide as my boot disk
cksum 3151524850 1474560

Boot off of floppy and when its gets to LI, toggle the caps locks and num locks
keys.  What happens?  I have had this fix the problem before.

If this doesn't do anything try booting with a slackware boot disk and see if
it acts any different
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware-7.0/bootdsks.144/bare.i


On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> --- John Carpenter <barak@ticon.net> wrote:
> > If you're booting off of the floppy the fact that it
> > stops at LI shouldn't have
> > anything to do with a hard drive, and I would bet
> > that if you unplugged the
> > drive you would get the same result.  I have
> > actually seen machines that behave
> > like this though and I have no idea why, but if I
> > toggle the caps locks key a
> > couple times it give me the rest of the prompt.  Its
> > worth a shot anyways.  
> > 
> > On the subject of forcing the drive geometry, you
> > may want to try booting up
> > without forcing it and see if it gets it right on
> > its own.  
> > fdisk -l
>  
> 	I'm a bit confused when you say "without forcing" it,
> for I never got a chance to even present the
> "hda=xxxxxxx" argument for it stopped at "LI" before I
> got a chance to type in the info.
> 
> 	What floppy image did you use ? Am I missing
> something here ?
> 
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