[S.u.S.E. Linux] System hangs on floppy boot
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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.. Perry Moon Tampa Florida </PRE> <PRE> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Trying to unmount old root ... okay Adding Swap: 102296k swap-space (priority -1) Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A eth0: 3c509 at 0x310 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 d9 df 4a, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.12 6/4/97 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended. MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked file system, running fsck is recommended.
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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
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