Re: Can not get a floppy only install to work
This may not be related to you immediate problem but I would suspect
your PS/2 has a mca microbus, if I remember correctly. If that is the
case you can't use a stock Slink. There are people who have put
together a kernel and installation disks for machines with mca. It has
been so long I don't remember where to get them. I just did a search on
the web and found them. It was not an easy install.
hth,
kent
Tom wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an IBM PS/2 Model 8535 386sx with 4 meg RAM and a 75meg IDE hard
> drive and a 1.44 meg floppy drive. I am trying to do a base Debian
> install but can not get past the second disk. I have tried 2.1 and 2.2
> now with the exact same results and error message. I start with the
> compact rescue disk, the system comes toa a prompt boot: I press enter,
> the system continues and then asks for the root disk. I insert the
> floppy that I made with the compact root.bin file and press enter the
> system then responds with
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy) sector 0
> VFS: can not open root device 02:00
> This message is consistent and I have already tried remaking the
> floppies on other new floppy disks, I have tried boot params of
> root=/dev/fd0 or floppy0 and always I have the same error message.
> After two days of fighting with this I would appreciate any help
> Thanks
>
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