Messages in this thread | | | From | "Markley, Todd" <> | Subject | RE: Hangs after "Loading" but before "Uncompressing" | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:51:56 -0500 |
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Richard: I have already tried this, it also hangs before I get any "Uncompressing" message. I also tried using LOADLIN from a floppy, and I get the same thing. I can take these same boot disks to another computer and they boot fine. It never gets far enough to have a problem with mounting the root. It would seem to me that something is going wrong in arch/i386/boot/setup.S, but I don't know my way around this part of the software well enough to figure out what is going wrong. The kernel compile can't be broken because floppy will boot on other systems, including the system it was compiled on.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard B. Johnson To: Markley, Todd Cc: 'linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu' Sent: 1/25/00 7:46 PM Subject: Re: Hangs after "Loading" but before "Uncompressing"
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Markley, Todd wrote: [SNIPPED...]
Just copy bzImage to a raw floppy, i.e., `cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /dev/fd0`
The root-device is probably be wrong so it will fail to mount root, but the floppy should boot, uncompress, etc. This will tell you where to look for other problems.
If the symptoms are the same, the kernel is probably broken in the compile. You need to make sure you have the most recent tools. Look in ../linux/Documentation/Changes.
If the system boots, but can't mount the root file-system, just `rdev` either the floppy itself or the bzImage file and do it again.
`rdev /tmp/bzImage /dev/whatever_your_root_is` `cp /tmp/bzImage /dev/fd0`
It should boot and, if your root-fs driver has been compiled in, mount the root. The machine is now working normally. It just didn't boot from the hard-disk. This would show that something about the lilo configuration file isn't right.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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