Re: Making a boot floppy

[David Smead <smead@amplepower.com>]

Thanks to everyone who new the mkboot command.

Fortunately the machine boots of the hard drive, but not the floppy I
made.  I get a kernel panic.

First it warns about needing a boot=option, then
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02

I mounted the boot floppy and here's what lilo.conf says:

lba32
boot = /dev/fd0
install = boot.b
map = map
compact
prompt
timeout = 50
read-only
image = vmlinuz
label = linux
root = /dev/hda2

thevenin:/mnt/floppy# ls -l
total 648
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7964 May  3 19:26 boot.b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          134 May  3 19:26 lilo.conf
drwx------    2 root     root        12288 May  3 19:26 lost+found
-rw-------    1 root     root         5120 May  3 19:26 map
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       632393 May  3 19:26 vmlinuz

thevenin:/mnt/floppy# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2               474474    151783    298192  34% /
/dev/hda1                31079      4698     24777  16% /boot
/dev/hda5                77750        75     73661   1% /root
/dev/hda6              1921156    535624   1287940  30% /usr
/dev/hda7              4806904    319588   4243132   8% /var
/dev/hda8              1921156        24   1823540   1% /tmp
/dev/hda9              3518252        44   3339488   1% /home
/dev/fd0                  1412       649       691  49% /mnt/floppy

Suggestions?? Thanks.

-- 
Sincerely,

David Smead
http://www.amplepower.com.



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