From: Helgi Örn <eagleice@post.netlink.se> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:01:18 +0100 Message-Id: <00111514045603.01321@Kattholt> Subject: Error loading ramdisk Greetings to all of you SuSEr's! I have this disturbing problem with a computer I have at work; it's a dual-boot Win98/Caldera eDesktop 2.4 box but I'd like to put SuSE 7.0, Debian 2.2, or even Mandrake 7.2 there instead of Caldera and here's the problem: After having tryed almost all of the most common Linux dists (each dist in several versions, old & new) on the market, the only one that would/will install on this particular box is Caldera (both 2.3 & 2.4) with the help of 'Lisa' the text-mode installer program. All of the other dists just hang on me, they freeze when; 'loading second stage ramdisk' or 'reading description files' in the beginning of the installation process. If at all they manage to shoot up a message before they die it's something like; 'error loading ramdisk' 'mount failed: Invalid argument' 'Base system unknown' I have tryed to adjust the BIOS in all the different ways, and also put it into 'original configuration' but without any luck. This is the hardware: Two IDE harddisks, the first is 6GB with Win98 on 3GB and Linux on 3GB, the second is 2GB where we save all the work files from Windows. Note: I haven't been able to make Linux read the second hd, I've tryed with hdb and hdb1 in fstab...:-(Any advice on that?) Intel Pentium PCI 64MB RAM S3VIRGE with 2MB video RAM Typical 15 inch monitor (Teco information systems) Any solution possible? Any other method to install SuSE 7.0 than the one I use (from cd-rom after booting with floppy) to get by this problem? Grateful for all the hints I can get Cheers, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u@linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@