Re: problem booting hard disk after floppy/NFS install on a 7200/90

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:54:29AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
>
> > the default (for a rev 3 install anyway) is to use the symlink /vmlinux.  Which points to /boot/vmlinux-2.2.18pre21.  When I was having problems after using the install instructions on debian website, i wiped the PRAM and then modified quik as above.  Not sure if quik will work through a symlink or not.  Although /vmlinux points to 2.2.18pre21, 2.2.19 is installed (at least on a cd-rom install) and that's what i pointed to.
> >
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> that is a bug in the quik installation then, quik does not support
> symlinks.

I think it does support symlinks, there's a lot of code in there dedicated to resolving them, and as evidence, I have /boot -> /zip/boot and /etc/quik.conf -> /zip/etc/quik.conf and it works fine.  You just have to have the kernel and first/second.b and quik.conf on the same partition when all of the symlinks are resolved.  (I debugged this about a year ago, untangling the symlink-following logic was quite a chore!)

It sounds like the /vmlinux symlink is broken, is this the case for 2.2R3 images?  If so, it's a boot-floppies bug...

Zeen,

-Adam P.

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