Re: Almost got milo working on ruffian...
"Shannon Menkveld" <shannon@strangehouse.com> writes:
> Well, using Ron Farrer's patched ldmilo (thanks a bunch, Ron!!)and the
> "ruffian" image from the debian cd gets me about 2/3 of the way to a shell
> prompt, but, of course, something else appears. Using the debian image, I
> can load the rescue kernel. I get all of the typical kernel message stuff,
> but as soon as it asks me for the root disk (created from root.bin, using
> rawrite2 in windows), I get a bunch of errors and it dies. Here's the
> sequence, starting from insertion of the root image disk:
>
> RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00(floppy), sector 2587
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> floppy0: data CRC error: track 71, head 1, sector 14, size 2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00(floppy), sector 2587
> CRC error <5> VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
Well, that sounds like a broken floppy. Alpha firmware seems to be
extremely flaky with floppies, for example I once needed about 20
tries to get my SRM to boot from a certain floppy. So just try some
more floppies.
Falk
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