Re: Unable to boot mu on a new pc

From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 22:03:22 CEST


Copy loadlin.exe and the kernel to another (DOS) disk.
The real problem here is determining the
ramdisk_start and ramdisk_size paramiters.
The information is somewhere on the floppy.

>From: Clive Wright <clive_wright@telinco.co.uk>
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>I have recently had a new pc from compaq installed at work.
>I wanted to try loading mu9.5 onto it to see if mu could
>recognise the hardware but I have been unsuccessful.
>the bios takes one look at the mu base floppy (1440) and
>decides to boot NT4.0 from the C: drive.
>I originally thought the boot order was wrong in the bios
>setup but that was correct.
>A dos boot disk booted correctly. I even tried a QNX demo
>disk; no problem.
>The mu disk checked out correctly on another (older) pc.
>
>I do not know what to try next! Has anyone else got any
>ideas?
>
>Clive
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