Re: Grafting other kernels on Debian's rescue disks

["Robert J. Alexander" <rja@raleigh.ibm.com>]

Thank you Ray.
I tried with the bzImage file on SuSe and copied it to the 2.1.4 boot
floppy. The floppy obviously now boots but now the last lines of the
boot log:

RAMDISK .....
Uncompressing .....
VFS : Mounted root
VFS : Cannot open root device 08:01
Kernel panic : VFS unable to mount ....

and hangs there ...

BTW 2.1.4 does NOT boot my old faithful Thinkpad 760 like the tecra did
so just going to zImage does not appear to be enough.

Any other ideas ????????

Ciao Bob.

J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 08:22:53 -0500, Robert J. Alexander wrote:
> > As I am stuck on my Thinkpad with Debian, while other distributions
> > happily boot (SuSe, Tom's RootBoot for example), I would like to know if
> > and how can I "graft" the kernel on the working boot floppies on Debian's
> > rescue.
> 
> The boot floppy uses plain FAT and syslinux; the kernel on it is named
> "linux".  It should be sufficient to replace the "linux" file on it with a
> kernel image that works for you.
> 
> HTH,
> Ray
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