Did you format the floppy in DOS or Windows95/NT? I have heard Linux does
not like it if the format is other than DOS. The same thing happened to
me a few months ago, so far I have not gone back to re-install. I am
interested to know how you eventually solve this..



On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, David Gillett wrote:

>   I have an Opti MV035 (Rev D) 486 motherboard that I have recently
> reassembled into a system with an AMD DX4-100, 32MB of RAM (one
> SIMM), a Cirrus 5428 VLB video card, two 2.1GB EIDE drives, and an
> Acer 916e CD-ROM drive.  I'm having two problems with it which may
> or may not be related:
>
> 1.  Booting from a DOS floppy gets through the POST code to where it
> actually would start to load from the floppy, then sits there with
> the floppy light and motor going, but never shows any further
> progress.
>   I can correct this, for now, by disabling L1 cache in the CMOS
> setup.  Obviously, I'd prefer not to do that; I think I would
> remember if I had had to do that when this mobo and CPU were working
> together before.
>
> 2.  This is to be my first Linux box, and I'm trying to install Red
> Hat 5.0 on it.  I get as far as the message "Now booting the kernel",
> and the system hangs.  [This is with L1 already disabled, or it
> wouldn't have got this far.]
>   My suspicion is that this may be about the point where Linux wants
> to start probing to identify installed hardware, but I don't know for
> sure.  Does anyone here know?
>
> David G
>

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