Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 1999 06:04:50 +0000 | From | Matthew Vanecek <> | Subject | 2.2.9 refuses to boot from floppy |
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Firstly, I've tried several different known good floppies.
I've an old 486/120, with an unknown I/O card for IDE and floppy drives. Currently, I have installed Redhat 6.0, using the default 2.2.5-15 from the bootdisk made during installation. Everything works more or less ok, except for some irritating packet forwarding problems (why do some packets simply refuse to be forwarded, and refuse leave a trace of why they won't be forwarded? Very disconcerting).
I would, however, like to upgrade my kernel. For whatever reason (I don't know why), LILO doesn't work. Somehow, the computer completely skips the boot sector, or doesn't know how to read it, whatever. Put the same hard drive in another computer and it boots fine off of the currently installed LILO. On this one, it always complains about a non-system disk, which is why I have to use a boot disk.
Now, as I've said, I've tried several floppies in a make bzdisk operation. Compiled the kernel both on the computer itself, and on another computer (and ran rdev to set the root device). The kernel loads and uncompresses, and the various drivers are loaded, eth0, pppd 2.3.7, hda {hda1...} all detected. Finally, the boot sequence reaches the "Freeing kernel memory..." line, and the computer promptly freezes. Complete lockup--keyboard stops responding.
The one time I tried DOS on the system, everything worked fine at bootup. Well, as well as DOS can, anyhow.
I would really like to get this problem solved, so that I can move beyond the stock install. I'd use LILO off a floppy, but that doesn't work, either, it seems. <sigh>
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