Van: Howard Arons <hlarons@ComCAT.COM> Aan: suse-linux-e@suse.com Onderwerp: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Problems with Boot/Recovery Disk [was Re: Rescue disk] Datum: woensdag 12 augustus 1998 18:28

On Aug 11, 1998, Hubert Mantel wrote:

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Hi,

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Howard Arons wrote:

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I tried a dd of the SuSE CD /disks/scsi11, which is supposed to be

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the FD 16xx card, but it won't boot. It says "Loading initdisk.gz" followed by "Boot failed; press any key to retry". Bummer. Maybe scsi11 contains no IDE/EIDE drivers?

No, this normally is caused by a defective floppy. It's very early in

Why don't you let suse create a recoverdisk for you. Then it contains your current kernel. (You should have done that before a crash ofcourse). ---------- the

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boot process and the kernel has not yet been loaded. Another reason _could_ be a corrupted disk image on the CD.

Right you are. I ran 'badblocks -v -w /dev/fd0 1440' to test the floppy. No errors. I ran 'dd if=/cdrom/disks/scsi11 of=/dev/fd0'. Boots fine if 'linux fdomain=<addr>,<irq>'is entered at the boot prompt.

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Well, I think your self-compiled kernel lacks some needed options. You need:

CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y (for size reasons, linuxrc is a.out) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y

You caught me there! In my newbie ignorance, I compiled with CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD" is _not_ present in either my new OR my original .config file. Based on the SuSE manual I assumed I didn't need it.

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-o) Hubert /\\ _\_v

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