boot-floppies 3.0.19 with kernel-2.4
For test purposes, I downloaded the current bf2.4-images and wrote them
on floppies. I'm experiencing strange behaviour, and I'm really unsure
wether this might be
- an incomatibility with this kernel 2.4 - as suggested in the
README.txt
- a bug
- or just a problem of damaged image files.
First of all, are there md5-sums for the boot-floppy images?
The problems I have are that the computer totally freezes during
installation, at one or the other point. I experienced a freeze at the
following stages:
- after (or during?) copying the root.bin floppy to RAM: Floppy activity
ended, nothing happened (2 times)
- at different stages of the dbootstrap install process: A new screen
appeared, but I couldn't move the selection nor select the highlighted
line with <ENTER> (at least 3 times)
- when initiallizing an ext3 partition, after printing" ...system
accounting information" (3 or 4 times)
- while reading the rescue or driver disks. (2 times, I used ext2 or
reiserfs in these 2 cases, but that might be a strange coincidence)
Since the error also occured while reading a floppy disk (the progress
bar was somewhere in the middle), I believe that it's not just the
keyboard that freezes, but the whole thing. Unfortunately I never
switched to the third console by chance right before the freeze came,
that would have been interesting.
I experienced this with a first set of disks, a second one, re-written
from the same images, and a third one with freshly downloaded
images. The first set was ritten with dd under woody, the others with
rawrite2.exe in WinNT (because the old Linux Laptop seems to have a
problem with its floppy drive, and I wanted to exclude that).
The system is a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop with Intel 815E chipset.
Any comments?
Bye, Frank
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Frank Fürst, physikalische Biochemie, Universität Potsdam, Germany
Tel.: +49-331-977-5062 Fax: +49-331-977-5062
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