Boot failed (floppy/toshiba t1910)

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Boot failed (floppy/toshiba t1910)
started by: novoiperkele

Posted by novoiperkele on Dec. 17 2005,08:51

I installed via frugal_lite.sh

The installer installed the image and made a boot floppy.

When the machine boots it just says "boot failed".

Machine is a 486 with 20m ram and 120M hdd.

I also tried the "dsl-boot-0.8.0.img" to boot the darn thing, same result.

What did i do wrong ?

Posted by novoiperkele on Dec. 17 2005,11:02

OK, it seems that the bootfloppies dont work..

Is it possible to install the loader directly to the hdd ?

Posted by skaos on Dec. 17 2005,15:26

Search the forum for "loadlin", this is a utility to boot linux from dos. I don't know if it solves the "boot filed" problem.

Posted by novoiperkele on Dec. 18 2005,06:54

Quote (skaos @ Dec. 17 2005,10:26)

Search the forum for "loadlin", this is a utility to boot linux from dos. I don't know if it solves the "boot filed" problem.

I dont have dos :-(

i have tinylinux (w. lilo) installed, can i boot the image from that somehow ?