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I was installing Red Hat 8 on my 486 and it all went well except for one thing - it crashed on the boot loader install!! Ahhhh crap.

Anybody know what to do now?

Didnt make a boot disk did you, go to your distros site and download a boot disk image and put it on a floppy, then set your boot order in cmos to boot from a floppy first. you will probably also need rawrite to write the image to your floppy. then boot using said floppy and A. REinstall linux, B. use the floppy to boot the machine from now on.

Try lighter distros (i386) or use older version that support 486 processor (and usually low RAM).

e.g. SuSE 7.1 support hardware as low as 486 DX, 32 MB RAM (without GUI and graphical YaST), 400 MB harddisk space, and some old video cards.

Search it here:
www.distrowatch.com


Have fun :-)

And next time use better and more helpful thread titles please. I thought we've warned of this before? Don't make me start zapping you with my photarlazermajiggerplasmicraygun :)

Yes I would not recommend redhat 8 on anything below a 500 with a decent vidcard, due to all of the GTK2 stuff. That is really a load on a system like that. I would recommend debian or something like that.

What about going in through rescue mode and just reinstalling the boot loader? Is that no longer an option?

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I would try to re-install from scratch. Maybe pick another bootloader this time.

Re-installing is for winbloze, fixing is for linux. ;)

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