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I have read the
correspondence about this subject already but I think I have a unique
situation.
My problem is that I cannot
boot linux off my hard disk and for some reason I can't seem to create a new
boot floppy with the 2.2.1 kernel image. Even when I use bzimage I get an error
message saying that the kernel is too big. This also happens when trying to boot
from loadlin.
Currently, I have IBM Boot Manager
on the primary partition of my first physical drive (a SCSI 9.1 GB drive) It is
set up to boot either Win98 from the same drive or Linux from an external SCSI
jaz drive (2GB). I also have a 2.1 GB ide drive that I store dos files on as
well as using this drive to download linux files(while in win 98). I have this
drive mounted under /dev/ide in linux. Windows boots fine but when I choose
linux the screen goes blank for a second and then the letters "LI"
appear in the upper left hand corner and the machine freezes.
I then made a new linux
partition on the first physical drive (SCSI) installed all of the root
filesystem there and then reconfigured lilo.conf, ran lilo, associated the boot
manager with the new partition and had the exact same thing happen at boot
time.
A friend of mine who is a bit more
knowledgable than I as far as linux goes suggested putting the linux root
partition on the ide drive. I have the latest version of my system BIOS so I'm
not sure if this will help.(it has no problem booting from SCSI
devices.
Basically the only way I can boot
linux is to use the boot floppy I made from the rescue disk (which doesn't allow
you to select which kernel you want to boot). This floppy must take at least 5
min to boot. It seems to be uncompressing some files before starting the
OS.
The reason I am upgrading my kernel
is because my modem is not working. My friend seems to think that this is
because my current kernel 2.1.36 doesn't support PNP properly. I have run
pnpdump and uncommented the proper attributes the cut and paste int isapnp.conf
but I get an error message saying that the "file cannot be parsed at line
40" this line is where the first "real" code exists. ie:the first
uncommented line.
Someone please help!!!!!!! I've spent
many,many,many hours trying to get this system up and running but at this point
it almost doesn't seem worth it. For every one thing I get working (X) two
things break, or were already broken(modem and boot problems).
Tom
Persons
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