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@xxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
