by I tried to install slackware 2.1 on my 486 w/an Adaptec 2842VL
SCSI card (should be linux 1.1.59)
I get errors since I don't put any disk in any of my two optical
drives, however after that it won't work and I get:
In swapper task not syncing
etc.
etc.
..
So I tried a boot disk from a friend (it seems to be a precompiled
kernel provided on the Slackware CD, not one of the root disks),
and this time I got:
IP PROTOCOLS: ICMP, NDP, TCP
kernel panic: aha274x_isr: brkadrint, error=0x1, seqaddr=0x0
So I also tried to disable the more than 1 gig translation (I have
a 2 gig disk) and this time the boot worked (whereas the root disk
didn't).
After that fdisk told me:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2048, larger than
1024 and may cause trouble with some software.
Since my several dos partitions take up more than 1 gig, I can't
disable the translation for good, however is there a way (similar
to the one used for EIDE disks larger than 520Megs) to install
Linux without the translation and then put it back so that both
Dos and Linux can work (I didn't try that yet because I don't
want to*up my other partitions if this doesn't work)
Any help would be really appreciated...
Thanks,
Marc