Re: installation
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Here's the copy that followed the result of inserting my
> root disk at the prompt:
>
> "RAMDISK 1474560 starting 0x00240000
> insert root
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 210
> RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image
> RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image
> insert Debian GNU/Linux Root Disk and press enter"
>
> When I do this I get this message:
>
> "[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
> 12,check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0x6c,cs=1248,#f=m,fs=40358,f1=27462,ds,8448,de=29807,dat
> a=10320,se=26207,ts=-808993323,ls=133641]
> transaction block size=512
> HPFS: hpfs_read_super: not HPFS
> kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 0:0200"
It looks like you have copied the root_floppy.gz file to an MSDOS format
disk, rather than simply putting it at the start of the disk. Please see
the FLOPPIES.readme file for instructions.
Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk
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