I'm trying to put Slackware 9.0 on my old PC. Every time I boot from a boot disk, I get this error, after it loads a few things from the floppy and asks me if I want to give it extra parameters:

"Boot Failed, insert another disk and press any key to continue"

What's wrong with it? I'm using bare.i , I also tried old_cd.i

I'm making the floppy disks using RAWWRITEXP.exe on an Windows XP system. When I insert the CD, it doesn't do anything, so I know I have to use a boot disk.

Here's the specs on the PC I'm trying to install:

Processer & Motherboard: First generation 486

Hard Drive: Fujitsu 2 GB

RAM: 24 MB DRAM

Video Card: 2 MB (I think) card.

Current OS: Windows NT 4.0 service pack 6

CD-ROM: Sony, 1994.

BIOS chip: Award Software, 1993

the old PC is a homebuilt, the XP one is a Dell.

Just a thought: how many different floppy disks have you tried?

I'd try 4 or 5 different ones before starting to blame anything else.

Lyle