Update: was Slackware 8.0 install error

[Gregory Nowak]

I'm assuming you're using a 1.44 mb floppy drive along with 1.44 mb floppies. I'm also assuming your boot disk comes from the bootdsks.144 directory. If all of this is true, then I am stumped on trying to figure out why your root disk bombs.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:23:29PM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> Another update guys and gals.
> 
> I moved the Doubletalk LT and tried the boot and root disks on another
> computer.  This computer came up talking in about 30 seconds (much
> better than the other computer - maybe bad floppy drive).  I inserted
> the root disk and pressed enter but still came up with the same errors.
> 
> So I used rawrite windows version to put color.gz onto a different
> floppy again.  This time I used a laptop to make the floppy.
> 
> I tried the boot and root disks on the faster responding computer and
> still came up with the same errors.  Errors are listed below again.
> 
> (error message)
> UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
> 
> (error message)
> Invalid session number or type of track
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 02:1c 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> rodney
> 
> 
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