Bug#143404: 143404

[Vincent McIntyre <Vince.McIntyre@atnf.csiro.au>]

> > RedHat7.2 boot floppy (boot.img from std cdrom) fails in the same
way
> >   Loading vmlinuz...
> ...
> >  boot: ramdisk0              (also tried "linux ramdisk0")
> >  Loading linux.bin...
> >  Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
>
> Please try another floppy...

I tried to boot a 3.0.18 boot-floppy, written on a different physical
disk. I also tried 3.0.22 on a different physical disk.
I even tried RH72 again, on a different floppy. All fail in the same way.

As I mentioned in the original report I was able to boot linux via
'boot.bat' which uses loadlin. I chose the 'vanilla' option,
 loadlin.exe linux root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin ramdisk_size=16384 \
   disksize=1.44
Unfortunately I don't have the facility to try this method again,
I installed freebsd and deployed it (as an xterm). I'm happy to try
more boots from later boot-floppy versions however.

Thanks for your interest







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