Re: 03-29 boot disks - worse than 02-20 for me :(
On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 08:41:47PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 02:24:59PM -0400, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The rescue disk failed to format the first screen where one puts the
> > kernel command line options. And worse than that hitting [ENTER] to boot
> > the kernel failed too -- it just hung there. Hence I couldn't even boot
> > with the "rescue" disk. So I used the 02-20 bootdisk to partition the
> > disk (it was a brand spanking new IDE disk with NO partition information),
> > once I rebooted into the 03-29 boot disk it displayed the opening screen
> > as per usual and the kernel booted and things were OK. So I assume
> > there is a dependency on having a pre-partitioned disk to work with.
> > Which is a `bad' assumption.
>
> I think your assumption is not right. Until you hit [ENTER] it is the
> syslinux boot-loader who has been running, and I don't think it does
> anything with partitions and such stuff. I was tempted to associate the
> "failed to format the first screen" part with the new screenfonts
> handling included in syslinux, but I haven't seen other reports about
> such strange behaviour. Have you tried with another copy of the same
> floppy? Sometimes damaged floppy surface leads to errors in the booting
> phase.
The same exact 03-29 floppy worked once the disk was partitioned by
the 02-20 rescue disk (perhaps I did something else like create ext2
filesystems, but I returned to the 03-29 floppy fairly quickly to
test it further). It failed repeatedly until I ran the 02-20 bootdisk.
Now it succeeds always. I can't reproduce it as this disk needs to go
into production tomorrow. But it was a showstopper.
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