Fwd: Re: installing, bad primary partition fatal error
I thought I would follow up my own note so that someone else might
benefit from the answer I found. (See below for question)
I found out that I had two partitions on my DOS harddisk. The first
partition amounted to about 2 megs and was a non-DOS partition. I have
no idea whatsoever how it got there. Using DOS FDISK, I deleted this
partition and loadlin and floppy installs proceded as normal from there
on.
I hope this helps someone.
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>What command did you use with loadlin? It should be
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> loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
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>Try this and make sure that you get it right.
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>The FATAL ERROR message is most likely caused by a bad floppy. Linux
is
>_very_ picky about floppies and you might need to make 5 or 6 before
you
>get a good one. No kidding. For this reason the loadlin method is
>preferred.
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>On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote:
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>> I tried installing debian 1.3 after downloading it from the website.
>> I made a rescue floppy and attempted an install from DOS with loadlin
>> (1.6). From loadlin, I got the following message during the install
>> process (but before configuring the monitor or keyboard):
>> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>> I was then able to boot back into DOS/Win95. (I have 8M ram and a
285M
>> IDE hard drive.) I then attempted to boot/install Linux from the
>> rescue disk. The following error occured when I was adding
partitions
>> (after configuring monitor and keyboard):
>> I tried a few more times each way with the same results (FATAL ERROR
>> for rescue floppy and Kernel panic for loadlin). Can someone please
>> help me figure out what to do?
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