[ILUG] Compaq Armada and Linux

[Glen Gray]

Does the machine boot ok from hard disk ? Or (sorry to mention this) a
DOS floppy. It could be a problem with the floppy drive if the DOS disk
doesn't work either. The heads might be out of alignment, thats if
floppy drives can still have that problem, I haven't seen it for years.

As for the loadlin it's sole reason for being there is to start the
installation image. A quick look through the Mandrake 7.2 CD's shows
that it copies a cdrom image to a dir on your C:\ drive and uses loadlin
to boot it. This image will then run the linux install as if booted from
CD.

Though the whole floppy disk things is a little worrying for a laptop as
it's a hand thing to have if you've not network card. I take it you can
get to the BIOS settings without a floppy disk in the drive ?

Glen

On 03 Apr 2001 11:56:29 +0100, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) wrote:
> It appears to come from the bios, before you can hit F10 to get into the
> bios settings, and it is from the boot floppy, of which I have made several.
> I'll have a look at the loadlin option, although I didn't think you could
> actually install using loadlin.
> 
> Thanks,
>       David.
> 
> David Hamilton
> Senior Technical Consultant
> HP Ireland
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen Gray [mailto:glen at antefacto.com]
> Sent: 03 April 2001 11:39
> To: HAMILTON,DAVID " "(HP-Ireland,ex2)
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Compaq Armada and Linux
> 
> 
> Is that an error when loading from the boot floppy or when the install
> program trys to access the harddrive.
> 
> I guess if it's the boot floppy then the obvious thing would be to try
> and make another one from a disk that you know is ok.
> 
> If it's the hard drive then perhaps a low level format of the disk might
> help. 
> If it's already running windows most of the distros have a batch file
> that uses loadlin to load linux into memory. If you can't get the thing
> booting from the floppy then this might be an option.
> 
> Glen
> 
> On 03 Apr 2001 11:31:17 +0100, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have got my hands on an old Compaq Armada 1572D (I think) laptop.
> > It's a Pentium MMX with 32Mb RAM and a 3 Gb Disk.
> > It has a CD-ROM, but won't boot from it.
> > I reckoned that this would make a pretty handy linux box, except I can't
> get
> > Linux onto the damn thing.
> > When I try to boot from a Linux Boot disk, I get a bios error saying that
> > the boot record is invalid :-(.
> > Anyone been there and found an answer?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> >       David.
> > 
> > 
> > David Hamilton
> > Senior Technical Consultant
> > HP Ireland
> > 
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