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Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Post by Kevin Mall » Thu, 27 Oct 1994 07:59:53



Hello,
        I just bought Yggdrasil Fall 1994.  I tried to boot it on my Compaq
Presario CDS 850.  I have an Adaptec AHA 1520 driver for my CDROM.  I saw
a posting last week that stated you had to change your Hard Disk configuration
so that it had less than 1024 sectors.  Why? How does this have anything to
do with booting from the CDROM? I thought the whole idea of Plug-and-Play was
so that you could boot linux off of the CDROM.  Has anyone been able to use
Plug-and-Play Fall 1994 on this configuration?  If so please email me and explain
how I go about doing so.

thanks,

--
Kevin Malloy

 
 
 
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Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Post by Adam J. Richt » Fri, 28 Oct 1994 04:15:01



>Hello,
>    I just bought Yggdrasil Fall 1994.  I tried to boot it on my Compaq
>Presario CDS 850.  I have an Adaptec AHA 1520 driver for my CDROM.

        If you check the hardware compatability list on the back of
the Plug-and-Play manual, you'll see that the aha152x driver is
only listed as experimental.  This is the result of the driver
failing one or another test on a particular hardware platform.

        (The aha152x driver problems are not specific to the
Ygg distribution, it's just that we test the drivers enough to
be able to distinguish between experimental and support drivers
in our hardware compatability lists.)

--
Adam J. Richter                           Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
(408) 261-6630                            "Free Software For The Rest of Us."

 
 
 
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Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Post by axtr.. » Sat, 29 Oct 1994 01:24:03


Quote:>    If you check the hardware compatability list on the back of
> the Plug-and-Play manual, you'll see that the aha152x driver is
> only listed as experimental.  This is the result of the driver
> failing one or another test on a particular hardware platform.

>    (The aha152x driver problems are not specific to the
> Ygg distribution, it's just that we test the drivers enough to
> be able to distinguish between experimental and support drivers
> in our hardware compatability lists.)

> --
> Adam J. Richter                              Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
> (408) 261-6630                               "Free Software For The Rest of Us."

Does this mean that those of us who have the aha152x have to
buy another SCSI card?

Andy

 
 
 
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Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Post by Arun Suresh Tagar » Mon, 31 Oct 1994 08:07:33




Quote:> >       If you check the hardware compatability list on the back of
> > the Plug-and-Play manual, you'll see that the aha152x driver is
> > only listed as experimental.  This is the result of the driver
> > failing one or another test on a particular hardware platform.

> >       (The aha152x driver problems are not specific to the
> > Ygg distribution, it's just that we test the drivers enough to
> > be able to distinguish between experimental and support drivers
> > in our hardware compatability lists.)

> > --

> Does this mean that those of us who have the aha152x have to
> buy another SCSI card?

> Andy

Hi Andy,
        reading this posting and I am not sure if you are or not using the
aha152x controller as such in the soundblaster 16. I have managed to use
this controller without any problems as such. I am fairly new to the game
but as I have missed the previous postings I would be happy to help if this
is the case. I apoligise if I have got the wrong end of the stick.

--
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Yggdrasil Fall - 1994 won't boot on my Compaq Presario CDS 850.

Post by Ugo C » Tue, 01 Nov 1994 22:51:10



>Does this mean that those of us who have the aha152x have to
>buy another SCSI card?

Non necessarily. I have a 1520 and Yggdrasil Fall `94 runs just fine.
It even finds the card automatically at boot time without using any
parameter on the boot line. I have been told, though, that you have to
use the default I/O address (340H I think) and disable parity (there
are jumpers on the board to do this). Don't know if it might work with
different settings, for me it worked the first time and never changed
them.

                                                Ugo

--
Ugo Cei
S.E.A Srl - C.so Strada Nuova, 112 - 27100 Pavia (Italy)

 
 
 
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1. Yggdrasil Fall 1994 (Summer 1994)

Bright and early I rise from my bed to pursue the American Way (spend
money.)  I arrived at Micro Center to purchase some Thin-net supplies and
perhaps a Linux CDROM (my current CDROM is a bit old and I am about to
network my two computers and so want the latest Linux kernel.)  

($300.00 later - man this store is neat)
What have we here!  A Yggdrasil CDROM.  The spine is marked Summer 1994 but
no matter, the kernel should be relatively new.  The price, $19.95.  I would
later find that the spine was incorrect and the CD was actually the Fall
1994.  Great... I throw the CD in the basket and roll as quickly as possible
to the very long checkout line.  

(back home)
The wife is upset.... I was only supposed to spend $60.00.  Of well, she will
get over it (she always does ;)  )  I rip open the Yggd package and thumb
through the manual (not really... just thought I would impress you guys..)  I
fdisk a few new partitions from OS/2 and then reboot with the Yggd floppy.  
It hangs attempting to mount root...   several times.... I know I have no
conflicts... I *was* successfully running Slackware 2.x (1.59), OS/2, DOS,
Windows whenever beta, etc.  Hmm.... thi IS odd.  I throw the new ether16
card to another IRQ.. works... weird.. No biggie, I will deal with that
later.  Now, I login as INSTALL.  The install begins.  I choose my
partitions, do some formatting and after the root partition is formatted I
find... it will not mount...

(Second try....)

it mounts.  Do I want LILO to rewrite the MBR: NO!  Boot Manager is so much
prettier.  OK.  All installed.  Reboot.  No bootable OS in this partition.  
Wow... how neat.  

I have been using Slackware successfully for almost a year... never had a
problem and yet Yggdrasil's CDROM will not install.  My equipment is pretty
standard: IDE - 2 drives, s3, 16 mb, pretty plain.  All my devices are
supported.  Now, I think I will just give Yggd a call... Hah! Not for $2.95 a
minute.  Maybe if I needed config help... but I can hardly justify spending
that kind of cash for their broken install.  So I think:  I will drop them
some email... How odd.... they mention that they will accept email but fail
to provide an email address.  

Bad business, yes.  I understand support costs are high... Hell, these guys
have *any* support costs, it is all profit at $2.95/min.  How do they support
bugs in their install.... they don't.  

I pull out the Slackware dist.  Install (same config, partitions etc.) It
works, flawlessly...  Imagine that.  A free install distribution and it
works. If I pay, it doesn't.  

Judge for yourself....

B Griggs

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