On Wednesday 28 July 2004 19:03, Robert Commer wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed Red Hat 7.2 onto a Virtual PC 2004. When I go to the > terminal and type in the command: > > dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 of=/dev/fd0 bs=16384 > > This copies the files needed for a boot disk to the floppy drive. > When I reboot to the floppy disk, it stops at an error: > > EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02 You can try using rdev on the floppy to tell it where the root FS is. Another option is to create an ext2 FS on the floppy, copy the kernel there and setup a boot loader, such as lilo, on the floppy. You may also want an initrd there as well. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
