booting problem

[Peter Persuric]

Hi  Joseph:
Cool!  It boots, I am at the slackware login prompt now! I have a lot of space
to play around with, about 12966.some thing mb, I was thinking about splitting
it up like this:
  hda1 4280 mb  type 83
hda2 4280 mb type 83
hda3 4280 mb type fat32 lba
hda4 128 mb type 82
What do you think?
  Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Norton" <jnorton at vol.com>
To: "Peter Persuric" <blndpete at raex.com>
Cc: "SPEAKUP Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: booting problem


Hi Peter:

Kirk just moved the new bare-i images I uploaded to the
/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/bare-i directory.  If the image you got was
dated earlier than Feb 15, try getting the bare-i.apc file again.  It
should be dated Feb 15.  Let me know what happens then.

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Peter Persuric wrote:

>     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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