booting problem

[Peter Persuric]

    Hi Joseph, OK the bare-i.apc boots and at the end of all the bootup
messages says
incert root flopy.  So far so good.  I incert the color.gz flopy and I get a
kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount fs: on 02:1c
this is the same message I have been getting befor, except this time it
happens when I incert the root flopy and press enter.  Befor it would happen
when the boot floppy was booting.  I tryed using loadlin to boot as well as
rawriteing the bare-i.apc and root files to floppies.. I get the same error
message when I use loadlin to boot bare.i off of the slackware cdrom.
Strange, if I remember I was able to use loadlin to boot the slackware 3.6
bare.i file in this way.  I have slackware ver 4.0 on cdrom.  Is this the same
version as the bare-i.apc?
  Thanks!
  Pete


Hi Peter:

I forgot to mention to kirk that the images I uploaded (only the
bare-i.xxx files at this time) are actual diskette images.  You should
rawrite them to a file (both the bare-i.apc and the color.gz or text.gz
files).  Then, you just boot the floppy you rawrote the bare-i.apc file on
and it should ask for the propper root floppy.  Then, you'd insert the
floppy you rawrote the file test.gz or color.gz on and it should say
something like "vfs: compressed ramdisk found" and some more
statistics--can't remember the exact verbiage.  This is all assuming Kirk
put the images I've uploaded so far up there.  My next project when I get
some time and no thunderstorms around here is to try to get the scsi
images done.

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Peter Persuric wrote:

> What's up with this?
> I downloaded the bare-i.apc and color.gz and loadlin.exe from the slackware
> directory andhere is what I got when I used loadlin to boot it.
>
> LOADLIN v1.6a (C) 1994..1996 Hans Lermen <lermen at elserv.ffm.fgan.de>
> Your current configuration needs interception of "setup.S,"
> but the setup-code in your Image file is *very* old (or wrong)
> Please use BIOSINTV/REALBIOS or try an other Image file
> Please enter name of kernel image file followed by optional
> command line parameters for Linux (e.g.  root=XXXX)
> or @file ( file = param file ) or "empty string" to abort:
>
>
> LOADLIN aborted by user
> 
> Pete
>
>
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