Boot Error

[Guest]

Hi I'm having trouble getting a bootable cd to work. I have a AMD 64
processor and decided to d/l Linux. I made a bootable cd with Nero and set my
bois to boot from cd. But when trying to boot I got a message saying:
MemoryManager Error (EMM386.EXE). So I started looking into it and came to
the conclusion I had to partition my HD to do it. I d/l'd the software Ranish
Partition Manager 4.40 ( I picked 4.40 because there was a tutorial link next
to the d/l explaining how to partion with .40). I used Nero again to make a
bootable cd with Ranish software and restarted my pc. To my amazement I got
the same error message. I think I've sort of located the problem to DMA but
have come to a dead end, can someone please help me?

 

[Plato]

Hi I'm having trouble getting a bootable cd to work. I have a AMD 64

Off the bat at least your pc has no problem trying to boot from a
bootable cd. The problem lies in either config.sys or autoexec.bat with
some files it's trying to run.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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| Hi I'm having trouble getting a bootable cd to work. I have a AMD 64
| processor and decided to d/l Linux. I made a bootable cd with Nero and set my
| bois to boot from cd. But when trying to boot I got a message saying:
| MemoryManager Error (EMM386.EXE). So I started looking into it and came to
| the conclusion I had to partition my HD to do it. I d/l'd the software Ranish
| Partition Manager 4.40 ( I picked 4.40 because there was a tutorial link next
| to the d/l explaining how to partion with .40). I used Nero again to make a
| bootable cd with Ranish software and restarted my pc. To my amazement I got
| the same error message. I think I've sort of located the problem to DMA but
| have come to a dead end, can someone please help me?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi I'm having trouble getting a bootable cd to work. I have a AMD 64
processor and decided to d/l Linux. I made a bootable cd with Nero and set my
bois to boot from cd. But when trying to boot I got a message saying:
MemoryManager Error (EMM386.EXE). So I started looking into it and came to
the conclusion I had to partition my HD to do it.

It is expecting to be run from a real mode DOS that it boots. That
either has left the EMM386 file out or it is damaged. You might be
better of to boot a basic DOS from a floppy, eg a Win98 startup one, and
then run the CD setup program from it