HD Install :: Want to install DSL on an old pc
Hello,
I've got an old pentium 3 pc and i want to install dsl on it.
So i burned the DSL iso and boot from the cd.
I have one big partition hda1 for everyting so I install it on hda1 and choose as bootloader Grub when i reboot my computer it says:
Grub loading stage1.5
Grub loading, please wait...
Error 16
What do i have to do?
Sorry for my bad English im Dutch 
Greetings, Jouster
Jouster,
I haven't had many problems with grub but that error could be caused by the BIOS or harddrive errors. I had an old pc that windows messed up the harddrive so I wiped it clean with a windows 98 boot disk, ran format, and scandisk then I booted the DSL CD with boot option dsl 2. From the command line I typed fdisk /dev/hda and made two partitions hda1 type 82 100Meg for swap and hda2 type 83 for the rest. Then I typed mkswap /dev/hda1, mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda2, and swapon /dev/hda1. After that I rebooted and did the install. I have heard sometimes lilo works better on older pcs.
I had the same error message many times with many distros. All it means is Grub did not install 100% the correct way. It is looking for files inside the /boot directory. When a file is not there, or not the way it should be, you will get an error code.
Just install it again. and don't leave after the two beeps. It installs on its own if you don't type g for the grub bootloader.
It could be a faulty harddrive. I recently tried a frugal install on an older machine several times and received the same error. After changing the drive and performing the same steps as before it installed without trouble.
Some older comps don't go well with grub - unless there's some patch/workaround for that, but I've always used lilo on older hardware.
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