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PS
I wonder if anyone knows why Linux wasnt able to communicate with my
PS/1's disk drive correctly? If theres some way to kludge it to work (or
maybe even fix it correctly?)?
Anyhow, now my 386 is doing a much better job holding down some papers
across the room. Maybe I'll give it to my sisters >:).
On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Chris Evans wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As a favour for a friend I am installing Linux on her ancient 386SX...
> just to run console based things like (primarily) telnet. However, said
> machine is a PS/1.
>
> Problem 1) (SOLVED) -- stupid IBM bios doesn't report proper disk
> geometry. lilo parameters fix this.
>
> Problem 2) The moment it comes to load in the compressed image on the
> floppy, I get "I/O error on dev 02:00 sector 0" (or something similar).
> A search showed up a similar post by someone else a while back but it was
> not answered satisfactorily...
>
> So, is there any way to get a floppy drive working under Linux on a PS/1
> computer? Perhaps some floppy=really_quite_crap parameter I can give lilo?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>