[PLUG] unable to start Linux on PI Digital Equipment

[Nishit Dave]

I am not very sure about this, but it could be the old problem of BIOS
not being able to look beyond cylinder 1024 on your HDD.  Very likely
with the old MoBox.

-nd

On 11/20/06, YAGNESH N DESAI <ynd at hzw.ltindia.com> wrote:
> I have got an old PI desktop Digital Equipment at home.
>
> It is PI with 64MB RAM and 36GB HD (its infant 40GB but set to 36GB), with SIS
> graphic card. With windows 98 running on first 5GB. I formatted next 5.7GB
> for LINUX.
>
> I tried the MEPIS and UBUNTU live CD the Live session does not start
> even after 15 min. Hence I thought that the resources would be
> low and hence I tried to install Mandrake 9.2. it said the resource
> is low for VGA installation hence shifted to text mode. It said Xfree86 SVGA RPM
> not found. I selected Xfree 86 (4) and SIS option. Thinking that I will download
> the rpm and can install X server afterward.
>
> Installation got completed with LILO adding windows in its list on its own. What
> have now happened is if I select Linux from the LILO list it looks into the BIOS and
> the PC restarts.
>
> Can any one help on this.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Yagnesh
>