BDI Linux

[Big_Brian]

Hey Benny if you'd like to try BDI I can send it to you

[ynneb]

Thanks Brian for your offer. I have bought a copy of Mach2, so I will stick with that for the moment.
That was a kind offer though.

[FLUTE HEAD]

Well Im also new to emc and have the bdi disks. I installed the redhat and then I booted from the second cd wich is morphix (with the emc program). All I have done is ran it off the cdrom. I saw an option to load morphix to hard drive and successfully did that. A message was posted that the bdi install was complete. I restarted and the computer wouldn't boot. All I saw was "LIL" not Lilo. SO whats next? How do ya restart?

[Chagrin]

LILO will write a varying number of characters to the screen during bootup -- each character represents a seperate step in the boot process (kinda). "LIL" means "the descriptor table could not be read".

My guess is that you either have a bad hard disk (not likely) or a larger hard disk (>2GB) on an old computer (with an old BIOS). If you can't seem to get things working after attempting another reinstall, try repartitioning the disk with a small "/boot" partition (64MB should be sufficient) and make this the first partition on the disk (/dev/hda1).

[ESjaavik]

Flute Head, Go to: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Look through the archives, there may be something there. And join the mailing list.
My guess is that it's a partition problem, and that the Linux partition cannot be reached.
I've only run the Morphix version from CD, but if you made a boot floppy, it will probably boot using that.