Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90
Ethan Benson wrote:
> i think quik's symlink code is quite unreliable, as a friend of mine
> always had his 7200 fail to boot if quik was pointed at a
> /boot/vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X symlink. /boot is on the root
> filesystem, not a separate partition, i could not concieve of why this
> configuration kept failing to boot so i had him change image= from
> /boot/vmlinux to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1X and it worked correctly.
There used to be a problem with symlinks from / (I forget whether it liked links to have a leading / or not, e.g. /zip -> /zip/boot worked but -> zip/boot didn't or vice versa). I sent a patch to fix that before the potato release. How long ago did you have this problem?
Check out (archive) bug #55039. I haven't touched the quik source since then though. :-)
> btw, can you please toss a \n in your message every once in a while?
> like say every 72 characters. thanks ;-)
Sorry about that. Netscape Mail is sometimes good about that, sometimes not. :-(
-Adam P.
GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6
Reply to: