Re: Installation Problems
Hi,
Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make.
But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy
disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite
or check the badblock fisrt.
TO make sure your computer is bootable in Linux you
can try loadlin provided that you can boot into DOS,
Pls fine loadlin some where in debian ftp server, put
it
like c:\loadlin.exe
And the kernel image I am not sure where to download
it may be some one has an idea, If you need I can send
you one made by me.) for example you save the kernel
image as the file c:\bzimage
Then at the dos prompt type
loadlin bzimage root=/dev/hda2
Just to check if the kernel is loaded. You will have
the error at last as /dev/hda2 is not a root partition
at the moment but you can watch if the kernel detects
everything. Please post the message that the kernel
inform.
If you need the kernel reply me.
Regards
--- Margarete Hans <whans@total.net> wrote: > I assume
that no one responded to my original
> message because it was
> in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully
> in plain text this
> time.
> I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor,
> with floppies on a
> COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of
> wich 4 MB are on
> the System Board and 16 MB are part of an Expansion
> Module, an SL
> enhanced 486DX2 processor at 40 MHz, an integrated
> 387-Compatible
> coprocessor; I have a primary DOS FAT-16 partition
> (410MB), a primary
> Linux partition (50MB)(unformatted) and and expanded
> partition with
> two other unformatted Linux partitions(70MB and
> 210MB). The partitions
> were made with Partition Manager, a very basic
> DOS-utility. I
> downloaded the disk images with DownloadAccelerator.
> Upon inserting the rescue disk and rebooting, it
> checked the RAM,
> accessessed the floppy and then simply stopped. The
> curser was on the
> top row, blinking. I retried it a couple of times,
> rawriting it on
> different floppies each time.
> I then tried it on my primary computer (DELL Pentium
> 166, 32MB RAM,
> AMIBIOS version A10 by Americanmegatrends, one 3GB
> FAT-32 Win95
> partition). The same thing happened.
> I assumed that the problem was that the file was
> corrupted.
> I redownloaded the disk image. This time, on both
> computers, I got a
> message that the floppy is "not a bootable disk".
> I redownloaded it a third time from a different
> server, with the same
> result as the second on both computers.
> I tried the Compact flavor. The rescue disk worked
> fine on both
> computers, but upon inserting the root image disk, I
> got a message
> "invalid compressed format (err=1)<5>VFS: insert
> root floppy and press
> ENTER".
> Upon hitting enter, without changing disk, there is
> some obscure code
> repeated twice and then a "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable
> to mount root fs
> on 2:00
> ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1".
> I tried downloading the compact root twice, rawrote
> it onto different
> disks and tried it on both computers with the same
> results.
> I have no new ideas of what to try next. What should
> I do?
>
> Derek
>
>
>
>
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