Re: Booting from floppy
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:43:38AM -0700, Shane wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have created a boot floppy with the
> following commands(debian 2.2).
>
> # dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync
> # rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda
^^^^^
I believe this should be your root partition.
Is it perhaps /dev/hda1 (or something)?
> # rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
>
> The system starts to boot and then it hungs
> with this message.
>
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
>
> What am I doing wrong? Also, how do you
> stop the boot process, pressing the <shift>
> key has no effect when booting from floppy.
The <shift> key interrupts LILO, but when you
boot a disk image you've got a kernel image
loaded by BIOS and jumped to directly. So LILO
isn't part of the process.
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> -Shane
Regards,
Robert
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