by Hi --
I've been trying to install Linux, Slackware distribution, v.2.3, on
an old IBM PS/Valuepoint 486SX/25 running OS/2 2.1. The machine has
two Western Dig. hard drives -- the first, a 170 (163) MB, the second
a 340. Currently, the first partition on the C: (170) drive and the
entire D: drive are OS/2 FAT partitions. I used OS/2 FDISK to make a
bootable primary partition for Linux following the OS/2 partition on
C: drive, and also created a 20-MB swap partition after it (and ahead
of the OS/2 Boot Mgr partition).
I'm using the BARE bootdisk and the COLOR144 rootdisk.
During the hardware check at bootup, Linux recognizes the first drive
(and most or all of the other hardware); it's not at all clear that it
recognizes the second (though this is not crucial, since I don't
intend to use it with Linux). Then, when it tries to check the
partition information, it produces a long series of errors, most of
which go by too fast to read. It repeatedly produces a message like,
hda DRDY error. Status 0x00 {}
Two questions:
-- is there any way to pause the messages so that I can read them all?
-- and does anyone know what the problem is?
Thanks in advance --
David Bush