Re: RH-9 boot hangs from floppy bootdisk

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-09-21 at 20:48, Shash Chatterjee wrote:
> When booting from floppy, it loads the kernel/ramdisk from floppy, then 
> recognizes the HW and then hangs with the following message (at the 
> bottom).  Hitting any key causes a single "keyboard: unknown keysequence 
> 0e .." and then I have to hard-reset to recover.

Firstly try booting with the additional option "ide=nodma". That will
hopefully get you installed but slowly and able to update to a newer
kernel.

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