Re: Debian installation hangs
Hi Mark,
I didn't feel right about putting untested code up for the innocent to
trip over, particularly newcomers, so I decided to try booting the
bootdisk I created by recompiling with scsi enabled (I only have scsi
drives). I experienced some errors with the ramdisk, as I feared might
occur (the docs are all over the place on this issue..). So I make one
modification to the Makefile regarding the ramdisk, and tested the new
version, and it booted. In fact, the new version will even bootup on
my scsi system, although installing without a hard drive is a dead end.
I've pulled down the ill-fated first version and have replaced it with:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dstern/resc1440_b2.bin
Instructions
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1.) Use the regular dd command for bootdisks:
dd if=resc1440_b2.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync
Substitute for the hamm bootdisk and you should at least get past the
md driver message that was hanging you up, and hopefully get a
full-fledged install.
Let me know how it goes.
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Details of Mark's Basic Boot Disk (no scsi, no md,..) Version b2
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kernel-source-2.0.34-4
gcc 2.7.2.3-4.8
Staticly linked kernel options ("Y"es)
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CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_PCI,
CONFIG_SYSVIPC, CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT, CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF,
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF,
CONFIG_M386, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD,
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON,
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD,
CONFIG_INET, CONFIG_IP_NOSR, CONFIG_SKB_LARGE, CONFIG_NETDEVICES,
CONFIG_MINIX_FS, CONFIG_EXT2_FS, CONFIG_NLS, CONFIG_FAT_FS,
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_MOUSE,
Dynamically linked kernel options ("M"odules)
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, CONFIG_DUMMY,
CONFIG_PPP, CONFIG_ISO9660_FS, CONFIG_VFAT_FS, CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437,
CONFIG_SERIAL, CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_BUSMOUSE,
CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE,
CONFIG_PSMOUSE
Modifications to Makefile
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ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk
RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440
Miscellaneous
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$ ls -l /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321032 Dec 14 22:56 bzImage
rm -f /floppy/linux
cp bzImage /floppy
mv /floppy/bzImage /floppy/linux
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David
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dstern@u.washington.edu
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