From: wissner@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu (Jim Wissner) Subject: Super-newbie boot blues Date: 5 Jun 1992 14:25:35 GMT
I'm trying to install version .95a onto a 65meg RLL drive, and in
a nutshell here's what happens:
It boots fine from the floppies originally, it recognizes my hard
drive, I set the partitions w/ fdisk, and then create the filesystem
via mkfs. This all seems to work fine, with the exception of quite
a few more errors during the mkfs procedure than I think ought to
be there - but it works nonetheless.
[mount; create directory structures; sync; etc]
Then I try to change the boot disk: I've done this by using
pboot and I've created and used the rootset program (I think that
was from install.notes). pboot works uneventfully, and rootset
sort of works - it says that it doesn't like the disk, but when I
choose "fail" from the abort,retry,or fail trio, it seems to write
the sectors anyway.
I get two different errors from these disks, and it seems to me that
with the pboot created disk, it goes into this [seemingly] infinite
loop of displaying hex addresses down the left column of my screen.
The second error, which is the "kernel panic" then lockup, I get two
ways: by using the rootset created disk, or by pulling out the disk
during the first error and inserting the original boot disk.
Hmmm... I guess that was a large nutshell...
A thousand apologies for the obvious simplicity of this question
but I can't see what I'm overlooking...
Jim
wissner@perlis.mcs.gvsu.edu
(email or post or whatever - any responses will be appreciated)
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