Re: Create Special Boot Disks??
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jay Barbee wrote:
>
> > If the stock 1.3.1 Rescue disk will not boot up a system with an
> > Adaptec SCSI controller, do I have any other options for getting this
> > to work? Are there special rescue disks out there for this sort of
> > thing?
>
> The boot (rescue) disks use syslinux to boot the kernel. The
> instructions on the disk say you can put any kernel on the disk and name
> it linux. Then you can use the disk to boot. I had trouble with the
> modules, so you should put all the modules you are going to need for
> install (in my case, I had to have SCSI CD rom support). Then ask on
> this list, they KNOW and WILL help.
>
> Please look at the rescue disk on an msdos machine and confirm this. I
> had to do this when I booted my system at home with AHA 1542, then later
> AHA 2840 SCSI controllers, but that was back in the Deb 0.93 and 1.1
> days.
Thanks David for the reply...
I did as instructed, I built a 2.0.33 kernel with all the Adaptec
Controllers and IDE support, I also put in Ramdissk, and initrd as
well as proc, msdos, fat, iso9660, minix, ext2fs, elf, a.out.
I created the image with module support but with out any modules
(everything was built into the kernel). Image was created with 'make
bzImage', then I copied bzImage to "linux" and then copied it onto a
rescuedisk. I mounted the new rescue disk on a currently working
system and ran /mnt/rdev.sh. I did get an error from the last line
of this script ("rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0") which told me
"/dev/ram0: No such file or directory".
The kernel loads fine, but chokes when it gets to the RAMDISK. Here
is the final error:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:11
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:11
...I assume it has something to do with my linux box not having
/dev/ram0 when running the ./rdev.sh on the rescuedisk.
Any ideas?
--Jay Barbee
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