Very Computer

Heres my hardware config:

Gateway 2K P5-60 with 16M RAM w/ PCI bus and IDE controller
Master Conner IDE 540M HD
Slave Western Dig. 730 M HD
NEC-CDR 260 CD-ROM IDE)
and so on...

I have Yggdrasils FAll 94 dist CD-ROM and Im trying to plug it in and
play with it.

Well, to start with, it doesnt recognise my CD-ROM drive so I did the
recommended thing and tried to start up by running RUNLINUX.BAT from
the  CD drive under DOS.

This seems to have a problem with EMM386. With EMM386 loaded EMS or
NOT) I get the error message:
EMM386: Unrecoverable privileged operation, Error #00: Press Enter to
reboot

Disabling EMM386 i.e. remming the line out of config.sys, and then
running RUNLINUX causes the machine to hang.  The CD-ROM lights flash
briefly and then the system hangs, not even responding to
Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Has anyone with the above config gotten past this stage at all? If so,
how? I think its time to turn to Slackware if I cant figure this out
soon.

Any help would be appreciated. I wouldl like to make the 39.95 I spent
count for something.

-S

   On the ms-dross side - I believe that you must
remove *all* drivers (including himem), only
leaving enough to get the cdrom to talk.  But
I haven't tried this.

   Regards,
      Harry.

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: >Hi all,
: >
: >Heres my hardware config:
: >
: >Gateway 2K P5-60 with 16M RAM w/ PCI bus and IDE controller
: >Master Conner IDE 540M HD
: >Slave Western Dig. 730 M HD
: >NEC-CDR 260 CD-ROM IDE)
: >and so on...
: >
: >I have Yggdrasils FAll 94 dist CD-ROM and Im trying to plug it in and
: >play with it.
: >
: >Well, to start with, it doesnt recognise my CD-ROM drive so I did the
: >recommended thing and tried to start up by running RUNLINUX.BAT from
: >the  CD drive under DOS.
: >
: >This seems to have a problem with EMM386. With EMM386 loaded EMS or
: >NOT) I get the error message:
: >EMM386: Unrecoverable privileged operation, Error #00: Press Enter to
: >reboot
: >
: >Disabling EMM386 i.e. remming the line out of config.sys, and then
: >running RUNLINUX causes the machine to hang.  The CD-ROM lights flash
: >briefly and then the system hangs, not even responding to
: >Ctrl-Alt-Del.
: >
: >Has anyone with the above config gotten past this stage at all? If so,
: >how? I think its time to turn to Slackware if I cant figure this out
: >soon.
: >
:    First of all, I don't have exactly that combination.
: I have a SCSI disk instead of the EIDE.  I used
: linux hdc=cdrom root=/dev/hdc with the rev.F Ygg
: boot disk, and the cdrom mounted OK.

:    On the ms-dross side - I believe that you must
: remove *all* drivers (including himem), only
: leaving enough to get the cdrom to talk.  But
: I haven't tried this.

I tried that, yanking all my TSRs out and leaving in MSCDEX and MSDOS
so my CD drive mounted and DOS started up. Well, running RUNLINUX then
produces a row of dots. WHen the dots hit the right edge of my screen
my system reboots and comes up as a DOS machine again. While the dots
are being printed I can see the CD accesslights light up.

Not sure what to try beyond that unless theres a string at the boot
prompt I can type.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Counting down before the switch
to Slackware...

Thanks a lot,

-S

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Note that you still need all of your CD-ROM drivers installed (e.g. MSCDEX,
etc).

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  - deane