At 11:37 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote:
Hi guys,
It's me again, I just wanted to clarify a bit. I am having trouble making a boot floppy that will get me into my installed system. I had one that was working fine, but I screwed it up. I am able to get into my install using the install floppy from SuSE. With the disk I created in YAST System Administration, I am only able to get so far in boot. The kernel loads from floppy I assume and all hardware seems to be identified and the boot continues to a cretin point, then just halts.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <----- System hangs here when booting from floppy..
Any help appreciated..
If you have access to another machine (with Linux) then copy the appropriate pre-build kernels (NOT the BOOT Images, I don't recall where the prebuilt kernels are on CD1) to a temp directory). rdev <kernel-file> <root-device> e.g. rdev zImage /dev/hda2. This assumes you know the root device where you installed Linux. Then put a write enabled HD floppy into your drive and "dd if=<kernel-file> of=/dev/fd0" This will give you a boot floppy that will boot off of your "root-device" HTH Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e