Core 4 Install Problems

[Ted Potter]

On 3/8/06, Albert A. Hocking III <albertahocking at jasnetworks.net> wrote:
>
>  Ok, here is an example of the Error that I'm receiving:
>
>
>
> ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying
> to wing it...
> isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive =
> 9F
> isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4209, drive 9F
> Boot failed: press a key to retry...
>
>
>
> Here is my machine:
>
>
>
> Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
>
> Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3200
>
> RAM: 2 Gig
>
> Video: ATI X800
>
> Sound: SoundBlaster & Retek AC'97 (Onboard)
>
> LAN: Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/810 (Onboard)
>
> Secondary IDE: Inclose ID ATA66-2C (2 Cards Total)
>
> SCSI: AMD PCI
>
> Drives:
>
> Samsung SV4002H 40 Gig
>
> Maxtor 96147H8 60 Gig
>
> Maxtor 4G160J8 160 Gig
>
> Sony DVD DDU220E
>
> Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWND2
>
> Quantum 4 Gig TM3840A
>
> Seagate ST329OA
>
> NEC CDROM 465 SCSI
>
> Sony CDRW CRX14SS SCSI
>
>
>
> When I tried to install, I took two different routes, first was a SCSI
> install (which had worked before) and the bios didn't pick up on the disk at
> all.  Second was from an IDE boot and it posted the previous error.  In
> that time I spent a whole day trying to figure out how to install Fedora
> Core 4 from floppy and I haven't found a way to do it.
>
>
>
> All of the images that I find from Redhat are too big for that type of
> medium and I don't have a flash drive or any other type that is required.
> Also, I spent the rest of the day trying to make a Boot Disk from
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/sbm but I was never successful. I could make the
> floppy bootable with the *.sys file that was provided but I couldn't get the
> program to access the drive after that or figure out what files to copy so
> ldlinux.sys was the only file that I was aware of.
>
>
>
> I know what the obvious answer is and its one that I'm really avoiding for
> two reasons. I know that to track the hardware down that it doesn't like I
> should completely tear the machine down and add one thing at a time after
> install.  This is undesirable for two reasons:
>
>
>
>    1. it would take almost 2 days worth of work
>    2. anytime Windows has to reassign memory addresses, you run the
>    risk of the OS shutting down with Windows 2000
>
>
>
> So does anyone have another work around?
>

would a floppy disk you can boot off help ? if so check this:

You can also get something like Smart BootManager:


	http://btmgr.webframe.org/


This is a media-agnostic boot program that fits on a floppy and will
let you boot almost any media on your machine.


--  Stolen with pride from Rick Stevens......  :-)






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Ted Potter
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